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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

nu ziuhe in von mir der sunnm haz! helmbr. 1799. si hiezen in strichen in der sunnen haz; eracl. 1100. hicz in dev sunnen hc(z hill xarn; frauend. 375, 26. a man so cursed does not deserve to have the sun shine on him kindly. 1 hartmann on benedictions, niirnb. 1080, p. 158, 180- serious illness or distress is habitually called 'der gotes slac' stroke. 20 god. the vandal gizericli steps into his ship, and leaves it to the winds where they shall drive it to, or among what people he shall fall that god is angry with, ej' ovspirit in men, which breaks out in promethean defiance and threats, or even takes a violent practical turn (see suppl. herodotus 4, 94 says of the thracians: ovtoc oi

allir saman' uaster-jlrcs, mayday-fires, midsummer-fires, with their numerous ceremonies, carry us back to heathen sacrifices; especially such customs as rubbmg the sacred flame, running through the glowing embers, throv/ing flowers into the fire, baking and distributing large loaves or cakes, and the circular dance. dances passed into plays and dramatic representations (see ch. xiii, drawing the ship, ch. xxiii, and the witch-dances, ch. xxxiv. afzelius 1, 3 describes a sacrificial play still performed in parts of gothland, acted by young fellows in disguise, who blacken and rouge their faces (see ch. xvii, sub fine. one, wrajdt in fur, sits in a chair as the victim, holding in his mouth a bunch of straw-stalks cut fine, which reach as far as his ears and have the appearance of sowbristle

ers and sacrifices, one essential feature of the heatlien cultus remains to be brought out: the solemn carryinfj about of divine images. the divinity was not to remain rooted to one spot, but at various times to bestow its presence on the entire compass of the land (see ch. xiv. so nerthus rode in state (invehebatur populis),and berecynthia (ch. xiii, so fro travelled out in spring, so the sacred ship, the sacred plough was carried round (ch. xiii isis. the figure of the unknown gothic god rode in its waggon (ch. vi. fetcliing-in the summer or may, carrying-out winter and death, are founded on a similai view. holda, berhta and the like beings all make their circuit at stated seasons, to the heathen's joy and the christian's terror; even the march of wuotan's host may be so interpreted (con

female, and of the moon as a male being, which could not have escaped the observation of the eoman, if it had penetrated deeper. and vulcan, similar to the norse loki, but one of those divinities of whom there is least trace to be found in the rest of teutondom, had certainly less foundation than the equally visible and helpful deities of the nourishing earth, and of the quickening, fish-teeming, ship-sustaining water. i can only look upon caesar's statements as a half-true and roughcast opinion, which, in the face of the more detailed testimony of tacitus, hardly avails to cast a^ dporum nimiero eos solos ducimt, quos eernuiit, et quorum opibus aperte juvantur, solan et vulcaiuim et lunam; reliquos lie fania quideiii acceperuiit. li.g. g, 21. compare witli this b.g. 4, 7 where the uisiiie

dpossessor. add to this, tliat the edda never mentions the sword of tyr. nevertheless there are stronger reasons in favour of sahsnoz being zio: this for one, that he was a son of wuotan, whereas freyr comes of niorsr, though some genealogies to be presently mentioned bring him into connexion with woden. for the brilliant freyr, the beneficent son of niorsr, the dwarfs had constructed a wonderful ship skisblasnir, which could fold up like a cloth, sam. 45^ sn. 48. yngl. saga cap. 7 (see suppl).3 besides the swedes, the thrtendir in norway were devoted to freyr above all other gods, fornm. sog. 10, 312. occasionally priests of his are named, as thorsr freys goffi (of the lotli century, landn. 4, 10 and nialss. cap. 96; flosi appears to have succeeded his father in the office; other freysgyc

onsist in the name ids, seeing that mercury, mars, hercules, names that must have sounded equally un- german, raised no difficulty; what looked foreign was the symbol, the figure of a skip, reminding the writer of the eoman navigium isidis. when spring had set in, and the sea, untraversed during winter, was once more navigable, the greeks and eomans used to hold a solemn procession, and present a ship to isis. tliis was done on the fifth of march (iii non. mart, and the day is marked in the kalendarium rusticum as isidis navigium the principal evidence is found in apuleius and lactantius^ two writers who are later than tacitus, but the custom must have reached back to a much older date. on alexandrian coins isis appears walking by the side of pharus, unfurling a sail. say that from egypt t

n the first century, or before, it had got itself conveyed to one particular race inhabiting the heart of germany? it must have been a similar cultus, not the same, and perhaps long established amongst other germans as well. i will here draw attention to a strange custom of a much later time, which appears to me to be connected with this. about the year 1133, in a forest near inda (in eipuaria, a ship was built, set upon wheels, and drawn about the country by men who were yoked to it, first to aachen (aix, then to maestricht, where mast and sail were added, and up the river to tongres, looz and so on, everywhere with crowds of people assembling and escorting it. whereever it halted, there -were joj/ful shouts, songs of triumph and dancing 1 gesner, script, rei rust, ed. lips. 1773. 1, 8sg;

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

tieth century, my father's family were canal people and my father grew up at a time when the boats were still a major form of transport for coal and iron. some of these midland canal people were known as 'water witches' because they practised a religion based on the sacredness of water and earth. their symbol was the six-spoked sun wheel, painted on their boats. this sign was once thought to be a ship's wheel, but this is improbable, since canal boats have large rudders. unlike the romany gypsies, the midland water witches were descended from the friesian seafarers of the netherlands and 1876 a book entitled oer linda was published, named after the family who had been custodians of the wisdom since the sixth century bc. some insist the manuscript is a forgery and that the existing version

ABRAMELIN2

h. the sacred magic 86 the servitors of oriens, paymon, ariton and amaymon. hosen: from chaldaic, chvsn, chosen= strong, vigorous, powerful. saraph: from hebrew, shrp= to burn, or devour with fire. proxosos: perhaps from greek, prox, proxokos= a kid. habhi: from chaidee, chba, or hebrew, chbh= hidden. acuar: from hebrew, akr= a tiller of the earth. tirana: perhaps from hebrew, thrn= the mast of a ship, also an apple tree. alluph: from hebrew, alvp= a leader, a duke; also a bull, from his leading the herd. nercamay: perhaps from hebrew, nor= a boy, and chmh a companion. nilen: perhaps from nilus, latin, or neilos, greek= the river nile. morel: perhaps from hebrew, mrh= to rebel. traci: from greek, trachus, etc= harsh, rude. enaia: perhaps from hebrew, onih= poor, afflicted. mulach: probably

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

of syria. the hebrew word for 'lord' is adon or adonai. adonai *my* lord, is constantly used in the bible to replace the name jehovah where that was too sacred to be mentioned, or for other reasons improper to write down. adonai has also come to mean, through the rosicrucian tradition, the holy guardian angel, and thus the object of worship or concentration. it is the same thing; worship is worth-ship, means worthiness; and anything but the chosen object is necessarily an unworthy object. 14. as dhyana also represents the condition of annihilation of dividuality, it is a little difficult to distinguish between it and samadhi. i wrote in part i, book iv 'these dhyanic conditions contradict those of normal thought, but in samadhi they are very much more marked than in dhyana. and while in th

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

of the beatific vision. i must write this essay, that men may thereby come at last to understand true things. but the operation of the creative godhead is not enough. art is itself too near the reality which must be renounced for a season. therefore his work is also part of his temptation; the genius feels himself slipping constantly heavenward. the gravitation of eternity draws him. he is like a ship torn by the tempest from the harbor where the master must needs take on new passengers to the happy isles. so he must throw out anchors and the only holding is the mire! thus in order to maintain the equilibrium of sanity, the artist is obliged to seek fellowship with the grossest of mankind. like lord dunsany or augustus john, today, or like teniers or old, he may love to sit in taverns wher

ropical rain upon our faces. we shall go down to the mississippi, and watch the lights of the ships, and listen to the tales of travel and adventure of the mariners. there is one tale that moves me greatly; it is like the story of the sentinel of herculaneum. a cruiser of the u.s. navy was detailed to rio de janeiro (this was before the days of wireless telegraphy) the port was in quarantine; the ship had to stand ten miles out to sea. nevertheless, yellow jack managed to come aboard. the men died one by one. there was no way of getting word to washington; and, as it turned out later, the navy department had completely forgotten the existence of the ship. no orders came; the captain stuck to his post for three months. three months of solitude and death! at last a passing ship was signaled

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

ey called him "mad. accompanied in the ranks of the "insane" by such "madmen" as neitzsche, artaud, and reich, the mad arab makes a fourth, in a life-and-death game of cosmic bridge. they are all voices crying in that wilderness of madness that men call society, and as such were ostracised, stoned, and deemed mentally unfit for life. but, for them, justice will come when we have realised that the ship of state and the ship of st peter have become mere ships of fools- with captains who course the seas by stars, ignoring the eternal ocean- and then, we will have to look to the prisoners in the hold for navigational guidance. it is there, always, and cthulhu calls. dedication on the one hundredth anniversary of the nativity of the poet aleister crowley 1875-1975 ad meiomrum cthulhi gloriam ac

adows, remember! spirits, ladies of the veil of shadows, remember! spirits, lords of the light of life, remember! spirits, ladies of the light of life, remember! spirits, lords of the infernal regions, remember! spirits, ladies of the infernal regions, remember! spirits, lords of the lords of marduk, remember! spirits, ladies of the lords of marduk, remember! spirits, lords of sin, who maketh his ship cross the river, remember! spirits, ladies of sin, who maketh his ship cross the skies, remember! spirits, lords of shammash, king of the elder ones, remember! spirits, ladies of shammash gula, queen of the elder ones, remember! spirits, lords of tshku, lord of the annunaki, remember! spirits, ladies of the goddess ziku, mother of enki, remember! spirits, lords of ninnasu, our father of the n

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

the letter of water, and it is the mem final, whose long flat lines suggest the sea at peace hb:mem-final; not the ordinary (initial and medial) mem whose hieroglyph is a wave hb:mem<symbolism above outlined, yod is the mercurial "virgin word, the spermatozoon concealing its light under a cloke; and mem is the amniotic fluid, the flood wherein is the life-bearing ark. see a. crowley "the ship, equinox i, x> and then, in the centre of all, broods spirit, which combines the mildness of the lamb with the horns of the ram, and is the letter of bacchus or "christ<nuith, which makes possible the process described in the previous notes. but it is not permissible here to explain fully the exact matter or manner of this adjustment. i have preferred the exot

nvoke venus, you do not succeed if there are traces of saturn mixed up with it. that is a mere logical commonplace: in magick one must go much farther than this. one finds one's analogy in electricity. if insulation is imperfect, the whole current goes back to earth. it is useless to plead that in all those miles of wire there is only one-hundredth of an inch unprotected. it is no good building a ship if the water can enter, through however small a hole. that first task of the magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his circle absolutely impregnable<truth in "konx om pax. the circle (in one aspect) asserts duality, and emphasizes division> if one littlest thought intrude upon the mind of the mystic, his concentration is absolutely destroyed; and his co

ther extant versions give "to thy child" the preposition is very significant to the meaning "to thy child" would indicate that the priest etc. are taken to be children of the deity or perhaps the god horus "in thy child" would refer to the ix degree secret of o.t.o, of the technique of which this mass is a very exact and detailed hyperbole "to thy child" is the text in crowley's mystery play "the ship, found in equinox i, 9. although it is possible that the version found here is a simple error for that earlier text, crowley may have deliberately changed this late version in the mass to reflect the ix degree idea. other versions of the mass are found in the "international (first publication) and in the equinox iii, 1 (the "blue equinox, published a few years before this text> the chorus: fo

of what service can my being prove to the brothers of the a. a. if i cross the abyss, and am admitted to the city of the pyramids? 33. now that he may clearly understand the nature of this question, and the method of solution, let him study the reasoning of the anatomist who reconstructs an animal from a single bone. to take a simple example- 34. suppose, having lived all my life among savages, a ship is 421 cast upon the shore and wrecked. undamaged among the cargo is a "victoria. what is its use? the wheels speak of roads, their slimness of smooth roads, the brake of hilly roads. the shafts show that it was meant to be drawn by an animal, their height and length suggest an animal of the size of a horse. that the carriage is open suggests a climate tolerable at any time of the year<
ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

the same time more guilty and entirely innocent! for, while the charge is true, the defence is not to be shaken. the worst of all teachers are the boloney magnates, of whom i have already given some account. but the next worst are just exactly those who try to create an atmosphere of romance, and succeed only in a crude theatricalism. so, avoiding the swirling turmoil of scylla, i have broken the ship on the barren rock charybdis. editorial q- isn't this basakwards? weh now let me hearten you, brave sister! all the old tales are true! you can have as many dragons, princesses, vampires, knightserrant, glendowers, enchanted apes, jinn, sorcerers and incubi as you like to fancy, and- whoa emma! did i tell you about cardinal newman? well, i will. the one passage in his snivelling apologia whic

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

g the great work; for the doubling of the cube, like the squaring of the circle, was one of the great problems of antiquity. the surface of this altar is composed of ten squares. the top is kether, and the bottom malkuth. the height of the altar is equal to the height above the ground of the navel of the magician. the altar is connected with the ark of the covenant, noah's ark, the nave("navis" a ship) of the church, and many other symbols of antiquity, whose symbolism has been well worked out in an anonymous book called "the cannon<altar. for this altar must embody the magician's knowledge of the laws of nature, which are the laws through which he works. he should endeavour

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

rethren (referred to lilith& samael) myx) a wall hmwx menstruation (lit. gimpurity h) hdn 60 tried by fire; a watch-tower nxb excellence, sublimity, glory, pride nw)g constitution, tradition; practice hklh behold; they (fem) hnh a basket )n+ vision hzxm the southern district hbgn utensil, instrument, tool ylk lament yn 61 adon: master, lord nwd) nothing; not ny) towards, to thee kyl) i, myself; a ship, fleet yn) the belly n+b wealth nwh dwelling, habitation (as body is of soul) hwn 62 healing )s) the sons ynb to commit; healing hnz between nyb 63 abaddon: destruction, ruin (hell, as development of lw, 337; cf. 451) nwdb) dregs, roll; faeces (globular; dung llg fed nwz the nose m+wx fervour hmyx hwhy in briah yh w)w yh dwy briah fs gsecret nature h (see s.d. 1:38-39) gs beaver, builder hnwb

stocks ds 65 adonai: my lord (referred to malkuth; cf. 155& 361) ynd) weasels and other terrible animals myxw) palace, temple, mansion lkyh shone, gloried, praised llh silence! sh defective nzx a door post hzwzm a beating, striking hkm a lament, wailing yhn silence, quietness hymwd 66 the mystic number of the qliphoth, and of the great work food, victuals hlyk) thy god (deut. 4:24, 28:58) kyhl) a ship hyn) a trial, an experiment nwxb a wheel (the cognomen of shekinah) lglg miry nwy 67 binah: understanding hnyb zayin: a sword nyz a ship, fleet ynw) debased llz to embalm +nx 68 wise( ghe will understand that? h) nbyw to be wise mkx emptiness llx to pity sx lulav: a palm branch blwl life myyx 69 a manger, stable; an enclosure swb) myrtle sdh nations; gentiles myywg transgression, error, sin +

ydy 100 kaph: the palm [of the hand (fig. notariqon of kteis-phallus) pk a day; the seas; the times mymy vases, vessels mylk an effort, exertion nwdm mitigation of the one by the other (i.r.q. 995; cf. 97) l)b+yxm yoke; upper part; on, upon, above, over; to, towards; after; because l( throat (l a suffering, discouraged one; tax sm species, kind nym flask, bottle kp spice; drug; poison ms dryness; ship yc 101 swallowed, destroyed (l) a storehouse ms) michael: archangel of fire (lit. glike god h) l)kym kingdom; a virgin princess (esp. the virgin princess, i.e. the church) hkwlm gut; gut-string )myn vomit )q and it was so nk yhyw 102 a white goose nbl zww) trust; truth; faith hnwm) desirable, worthy of desire dmxn grace; pride; fame, glory; a wild goat ybc lord, owner; to possess; lands, gove

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

re thrown to the amphibians. each man built his own shelter of the rough stone sponge which abounded. the word 'house' was used only in atlas; the servile race called its huts 'hloklost (equivalent to the english word 'home. discontent was absolutely unknown. it had not been considered necessary to prohibit traffic with foreign countries, as the inhabitants of such were esteemed barbarians. had a ship landed men, they would have been murdered to a man, supposing that atlas had permitted any approach to its shores. that it hindered such, and by infallible means, was due to other considerations, whose nature will form the subject of a subsequent chapter. this then is the nature of the plains beneath atlas, and the character of the servile race .pa ii. of the race of atlas in the city or 'hou

of the history of atlas, from its earliest origins to the period immediately preceding the catastrophe. the origin of atlas is lost in the obscurity of antiquity. the official religious explanation is this "we came across the waters on the living atla, which is pious but improbable. a mystic meaning is to be suspected. the lay historian says "we came, escaping from destruction, eight persons in a ship, bearing the living zro" this reminds one of later legends of presumably equal value. poets frankly claim "we descended from heaven, and it has been seriously urged that seafarers would have preferred the plains to the rocks. the law of contrariety to nature explains this away. others maintain that the earliest settlers came 'by air' or 'through air. this must mean balloons or airplanes, as f

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

the sun, one point concentring space, as also is any other star. the word abrahadabra is from abrasax, father sun, which adds to 365. for the north-south antithesis see fabre d'olivet's "hermeneutic interpretation of the origin of the social state in man. note "sax" also as a rock, or stone, whence the symbol of the cubical stone, the mountain abiegnus, and so forth. nu is also reflected in naus, ship, etc, and that whole symbolism of hollow space which is familiar to all. there is also a question of identifying nu with on, noah, oannes, jonah, john, dianus, diana, and so on. but these identifications are all partial only, different facets of the diamond truth. we may neglect all these questions, and remain in the simplicity of this her own book. al i,2 "the unveiling of the company of hea

t his theologians, divining his nature, declare him? shall not even those who but sweep the courts of his temple, partake thereby of his person? and shall not our science lay hands on him, measure him, discover the depths, calculate the heights, and decipher the laws of his nature? also: to us of thelema, thus having trained our hearts and minds to be expert engineers of the sky-cleaver love, the ship to soar to the sun, to us the act of love is the consecration of the body to love. we burn the body on the altar of love, that even the brute may serve the will of the soul. we must then study the art of bodily love. we must not balk or bungle. we must be cool and competent as surgeons; brain, eye and hand the perfectly trained instruments of will. we must study the subject openly and imperso

e word 'hell' must therefore be explained in terms neither of virile vulgarity, or theological blackmail. i quote liber aleph, p.24, p.129, p.130, from which the peculiar applicability of the expression to the problem of the text will be evident "de nuptiis mysticis "o my son, how wonderful is the wisdom of this law of love! how vast are the oceans of uncharted joy that lie before the keel of thy ship! yet know this, that every opposition is in its nature named sorrow, and the joy lieth in the destruction of the dyad. therefore must thou seek ever those things which are to thee poisonous, and that in the highest degree, and make them thine by love. that which repels, that which disgusts, must thou assimilate in this way of wholeness. yet rest not in the joy of destruction of every complex

ot sharing in their light and liberty; nay, thou art mother and whore for thine own pleasure; the word i say to man i say to thee no less: do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law! ay, priest, ay, lawyer, ay, censor! will ye not gather in secret once again, if in your hoard of juggler's tricks there be not one untried, or in your cunning and counsel one device new-false to save your pirate ship from sinking? it has always been so easy up to now! what is the blasting magick in that word, first thesis of the book of the law, that "every woman is a star" alas! it is i the beast that roared that word so loud, and wakened beauty. your tricks, your drowsy drugs, your lies, your hypnotic passes- they will not serve you. make up your minds to be free and fearless as i, fit mates for women n

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

ve out their lives, and little care worries their souls worse fools they seem 140 than even christians. do i dream? probing philosophy to marrow, what thought darts in its poisoned arrow but this (my wisdom, even to me, seems folly) may their folly be 145 true wisdom? o esteemed tahuti !25 you are, you are, you are a beauty! if after all these years of worship you hail ra26 his bark or nuit27 her ship* a flat cake of unleavened bread. as a matter of fact they do not enjoy and indeed will not eat them, preferring dok, a past of course flour and water, wrapped round a hot stone. it cooks gradually, and remains warm all day. pentecost 29 slowness of divine justice. poet pockets piety stakes. national anthem of natal. but this talk is all indigestion. now for health. reasons for undertaking th

stands, will not bear close inspection. what buddha really commands with that grim humour of his, is: avoid intoxication. but what is intoxication? unless it be the loss of power to use perfectly a truth-telling set of faculties. if i walk unsteadily it is owing to nervous lies and so for all the phenomena of drunkenness. but a lie involves the assump* quoted in science and buddhism, s. iv, note. ship me somewhere east of suez, where a man can raise a thirst. r. kipling. while as for quilp hop o my thumb there banjo-byron that twangs the strum-strum there. browning, pachiarotto (said of a. austin) tion of some true standard, and this can nowhere be found. a doctor would tell you, moreover, that all food intoxicates: all, here as in all the universe, of every subject and in every predicate

been (some of us) a little apt to go out to fight with no other weapon. fitzjames s blade was sword and shield, and that served him against the murderous bludgeon-sword of the ruffianly highlander he happened to meet; but he would have fared ill had he called a western sheriff a liar, or gone off boer-sticking on spion kop. reason has done its utmost; theory has glutted us, and the motion of the ship is a little trying; mixed metaphore excellent in a short essay like this is no panacea for all mental infirmities; we must seek another guide. all the facts science has so busily collected, varied as they seem to be, are in reality all of the same kind. if we are to have one salient fact, a fact for a real advance, it must be a fact of a different order. have we such a fact to hand? we have

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

d daughter of ceres, who hath grown hideous in the lewd embrace of the serpent-god, betrayer of the knowledge of good and of evil. behold her bulging belly and her shrivelled breasts, full of scale and scab "bald, rotten, abominable" her tears no longer blossom into the anemones of spring; 184 for their purity has left them, and they are become as the bilge which poureth forth from the stern of a ship full of hogs. o! eros, fly, speed! await not the awakening oil to scorch thy cheek, lest thou discover that thy darling has grown hideous and wanton, and that in the place of a fair maiden there slimeth a huge slug fed of the cabbage-stalks of decay. o theos! o pantheos! o atheos! triple god of the brotherhood of warriors. evoe! i adore thee, o thou trinity of might and majesty- thou silent u

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rst and foremost, one central and all-operationg source of energy; in this case the steam which is generated in the boilers. this energy in itself is neither 1 sila must then be defined as the discipline essential to mental concentration, and this will vary with race, climate, individuality, etc. etc- a.c. good nor bad- it is simply "power" and whether that power does the useful work of moving he ship, or the bad work of breaking loose, and destroying and spoiling the ship, and 32 scalding men to death, and so on; all depends upon the correct and co-ordinated operation of all the various parts of that complex machinery. if the slide-valves of the great cylinders open a little too soon and so admit the steam before the proper time, much power will be lost in overcoming the resistance of the

his place, the place where he is wont to exercise his profession, the bedside of his patient, than the powerful association of the place overcome his weariness and mental torpor, and he is very wide awake- all his faculties on the alert, his mind working to the full limits demanded by his very difficult profession. so it is in all things: the merchant at his desk, the captain on the bridge of his ship, the engineer in his engine-room, the chemist in his laboratory- the effect of "place" upon the mind is always to awaken a particular set of sankh ras, the sankh ras associated in the mind with place. also there is perhaps a certain intangible yet operative atmosphere of thought which clings to place sin which definite acts have been done, definite thoughts constantly repeated. it is for this

meleon cup, and let him suck thine honey up" ib. dozens and scores of other parallel passages could be adduced; but i have sat up half the night already. it follows that "either" mr waite is a disciple of my own "or "the devil is quoting holy writ" i'll risk a bob that he would rather be the devil! aleister crowley_ x-rays on ex-probationers rats leave sinking ships; but you cannot be sure that a ship will sink because you see a rat running away from it. the captain may have given orders about it_ persecution is like keating's powder. it does not injure the most delicate skin, but it removes all vermin "mine own familiar friend in whom i trusted lifted up his heel against me- and then i saw it was the hoof of an ass. perdurabo. 142 the vampire i dream in strange laughterless mazes; i wake

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 1 2

igid to a strong projection of will toward adonai, as has been my custom. i hope to-day will be more hard definite magical work, less discourse, less beatific state of mind which is the very devil! the real calypso, none the less temptress because her name happens to be penelope. ah lord adonai, my lord! grant unto me the perfume and the vision; let me attain the desirable harbour; for my little ship is tossed by divers tempests, even by euroclydon, in the place where four winds meet. 12.35. therefore i shall go to rest, letting my mind rest ever in the will toward adonai. let my sleep be toward him, or annihilation; let my waking be to the music of his name; let the day be full to the uttermost of him only. 2.18. my good friend the body woke me at this hour by means of disturbed dreams a

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ck to where my guide was still standing. then he advanced, and beckoning me to follow him, we entered the great pillar of smoke and were carried through the bright dome of the temple "on, on we soared, through regions of cloud and air; on, on, past the stars and many myriads of burning specks of fire, till at length our journey led us to a vast blue sea, upon which was resting like a white swan a ship of silver. and without staying our flight, we made towards the ship, and descending upon it, rested awhile "on awaking, we found that we had arrived at a fair island, upon which stood a vast temple built of blocks of silver, square in form, and surrounded by a mighty colonnade. outside it was there set up an altar upon which a branch had been sacrificed "on seeing the altar, i stepped towards

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it might have been an airship that took me away, independent of terrestrial laws, regardless of customs duties- who knows, perhaps hovering over london and scotland yard and my dear old house in which i was so happy- but "nec scire fas est omnia" the only thing i am certain of is that i was either planed to fit the coffin, or the coffin to fit me; and then i woke up. i was on board a sea- or air-ship. believe me, she was in great danger. however, this would prove a useless narrative. the floating machinery suffered, was nearly wrecked; the crew suffered, nearly perished; i suffered, and nearly died. after the storm was over i found myself on the shore of this island with the box; a small cage out of which two carrier- pigeons, almost dead with hunger, were struggling to escape; three sail

, my soul was often wandering at large in its anxiety to provide for the future of the lofty thoughts of my late tormentor. i had banished all hatred and bitterness from my heart and forgiven my enemy. he had done me a great wrong, dragging me pitilessly away from the peaceful occupations of my life, cutting and planing my worthy form in order that i should fit his coffin. he had driven me to his ship, and was the cause of my present exile. two young kittens had placed all their hope in me, and i was failing to fill my paternal duty towards them. i was working at my great work, in fifty-two volumes, on the various elements composing the shell of the oyster, and i had almost completed my introduction, when i was thus deprived of my liberty by the man-who-had-lost-his-cover. yet i bore him n

occasioned by so dreadful an ordeal- or doom! of the three sailors, one was much too short to prove of any use. if i could easily shorten, lop, prune, and curtail a too big substitute, i could not possibly add anything to that small pattern of our race. i decided, in consequence, to slay him, during his sleep, so that a useless impediment be done away with. as the four men, since the wreck of our ship, were sunk in a state of torpor and only stared at me with vacant looks, it proved easy to settle this slight matter. i removed the body; and left to time and the natural dryness of the air the care of dividing its various elements. the man-whose-nose-sings-at-will was the first to notice the absence of the sailor, but he said nothing to me. in fact, i believe him to be mad also. he is contin

ce to him, and will publish his notes as i receive them. the contents of the coffin have not suffered from the wreck. here they are all, the books and the skull, the roses white and red, the picture and the doll. from the seventh and eighth compartments sprang the same tunes. truly, the sound reminded me of some hoarse singer, but the quantity of seawater absorbed during the floating journey from ship to land certainly accounts for it. i shall gather a few lemons and rub the wood carefully with their juices. 372 being a man of method and logic, i could not but begin with book- keeping. when they were dry the two books came very handy to me. i opened them at the first page, and started putting down with a blue pencil the most important among all the thoughts that came into my brain. in "the

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atch-towers of the universe. i am the charioteer in the east, lord of the past and the future, he who seeth by the light that is within him. i am the lord of resurrection, who cometh forth from the dusk, and whose birth is from the house of death. o ye two divine hawks upon your pinnacles, who are keeping watch over the universe! ye who accompany the bier unto its resting-place, and who pilot the ship of r, advancing onwards unto the heights of heaven! lord of the shrine which standeth in the centre of the earth! behold he is in me and i in him! mine is the radiance in which ptah floateth over his firmament. i travel upon high. i tread upon the firmament of nu. i raise a flame with the flashing lightning of mine eye, ever rushing forward in the splendour of the daily glorified r, giving li

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grim humour of his, is: avoid intoxication. but what is intoxication? unless it be the loss of power to use perfectly a truth-telling set of faculties. if i walk unsteadily it is owing to nervous lies_ and so for all the phenomena of drunkenness. but a lie involves the assumption of some true standard, and this can nowhere be found. a doctor would tell you, moreover, that all food intoxicates: 7 "ship me somewhere east of suez, where a man may raise a thirst" r. kipling. 8 "while as for quilp hop o' my thumb there, banjo-byron that twangs the strum-strum there" browning "pachiarotto (said of a. austin. all, here as in all the universe, of every subject and in every predicate, is a matter of degree. our faculties never tell us true; our eyes say flat when our fingers say round; our tongue s

escent of love, that burnest over the dark helm of war! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou snow-white ram of the dawn, that art slain by the lion of the noon! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou crimson spear-point of life, that art thrust through the dark bowels of time! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou black waterspout of death, that whirlest, whelmest the tall ship of life! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou mighty chain of events, that art strained betwixt cosmos and chaos! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou towering eagre of lust, that art heaped up by the moon-breasts of youth! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! 66 o thou serpent-crown of green light, that art wound round the dark forehead of death! i adore thee, evoe! i ado

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ject in view_ identification with the godhead; and it matters not if the aspirant be theist or atheist, pantheist or autotheist, christian or jew, or whether he name the goal of his attainment god, zeus, christ, matter, nature, spirit, heaven, 135 reason, nirvana, asgard, no-thing or no-god, so long as he "has" a goal in view, and a goal he is striving to attain. without a goal, he is but a human ship without port or destination; and, without striving, work, will to attain, he is but a human derelict, rudderless and mastless, tossed hither and thither by the billows of lunacy, eventually to sink beneath the black waters of madness and death. thus we find that outside the asylum, we, one and all of us, are strenuously or slothfully, willingly or unwillingly, consciously or unconsciously, pr

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rn) at one of his male meetings- there were also female ones; but mixed bathing in the ocean of infinite bliss was not allowed- he related to us his pet story, of how he had "flumoxed" the chief engineer and the captain of the liner which had brought him back from america. he informed them that coal and steam were absurd; what you want, he said, is to have two large holes made in the sides of you ship, then the air will blow into them and turn the wheels, and make the ship go. when the captain pointed out to him, that if a storm were to arise the water might possibly flow into the ship and sink it, he roared out "no! no. get english. get intellect! see! see! de vind vill fill de ship and blow it out of de vater and take it across over de vaves- since this now becomes public property there

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e knights fail to lift him, this being the test of worthiness. vii. lancelot findeth him upon scawfell, clothed in his white beard. he returneth, and, touching the dwarf but with his finger, herleth him to the heaven. viii. sir palamede, riding forth on the quest, seeth a druid worship the sun upon stonehenge. he rideth eastward, and findeth the sun setting in the west. furious he taketh a viking ship, and by sword and whip fareth seaward. ix. coming to india, he learneth that it glittereth. vainly fighting the waves,the leaves, and the snows, he is swept in the himalayas as by an avalanche into a valley where dwell certain ascetics, who pelt him with their eyeballs. x. seeking it as majesty, he chaseth an elephant in the indian jungle. the elephant escapeth; but he, led to trichinopoli by

ast. none answer. is the quest in vain? with oaken crown there comes a priest in samite robes, with hazel wand, and worships at the gilded east. ay! thither ride! the dawn beyond must run the quarry of his quest. he rode as he were wood or fond, until at night behoves him rest- he saw the gilding far behind out on the hills toward the west! with aimless fury hot and blind he flung him on a viking ship. he slew the rover, and inclined 25 the seamen to his stinging whip. accurs'd of god, despising men, thy reckless oars in ocean dip, sir palamede the saracen! 26 ix sir palamede the saracen sailed ever with a favouring wind unto the smooth and swarthy men that haunt the evil shore of hind: he queried eager of the quest "ay! ay" their cunning sages grinned "it shines! it shines! guess thou the

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ately balances all appearances, which are derived by the apparently unconscious object and received by the apparently conscious subject, we must look for it in the workings of man's brain.5 48 this is but a theory, but a theory worth working upon until a better be derived from truer facts. adopting it, the transfigured-realist gazes at it with wonder and then casts theory overboard, and loads his ship with law; postulates that every cause has its effect; and. when his ship begins to sink, refuses to jettison his wretched cargo, or even to man the pumps of doubt, because the final result is declared by his philosophy to be unknowable. if any one cause be unknowable, be it first or last, then all causes are unknowable. the will to create is denied, the will to annihilate is denied, and final

this typifies the whole course of breath. 71 it is the best support, the bow off which the soul as the arrow flies to brahman, the arrow which is shot from the body as bow in order to pierce the darkness, the upper fuel with which the body as the lower fuel is kindled by the fire of the vision of god, the net with which the fish of pr na is drawn out, and sacrificed in the fire of the atman, the ship on which a man voyages over the ether of the heart, the chariot which bears him to the world of brahman.44 at the end of the "shiva sanhita" there are some twenty verses dealing with the mantra. and as in so many other hindu books, a considerable amount of mystery is woven around these sacred utterances. we read: 190. in the four-petalled muladhara lotus is the seed of speech, brilliant as li

ve dots horizontal in the center, two arched rows of three immediately above and below, then two dots above and below the three and lastly one dot above center and one below. the whole dot pattern gives the appearance of the intersection of three lines at equal angles, composed of five dots each, the central dot common to all. the curved arrow lines are positioned like a trefoil or a three-bladed ship's propeller. one issues from just right of the base of the dots, curves clockwise outward and inward to a height about that of the top dot in the central pattern, but a distance equal to the diameter of the dot pattern from it horizontally. the top curved arrow line extends from just above and outward from the left end of the horizontal five row (extending the curve would intersect the left-m

e then lasted quite 6 or 7 minutes. 7th. position 1. 15 m. three breaks, but end very doubtful having become very sleepy. position 1. 6 m. three breaks. i seemed to collapse suddenly. went to devachan179 on astral journey. i found myself surrounded 116 by a wonderful pearly lustre, and then among great trees between the branches of which bright birds were flying. after this i saw a captain on his ship and also a lover contemplating his bride. the real inhabitants of this land to which i went were as of flame, and the imaginary ones were depicted as we physical beings are. then the images of my vision sped past me rapidly. i saw a mountaineer; my father preaching with me in his old home; my mother, his mother; a man doing rajayoga on white god-form. at last a wave of pale light, or rather o

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h life unto the dwellers in the watch-towers of the universe. i am the charioteer of the east, lord of the past and the future. i see by mine own inward light; lord of resurrection, who cometh forth from the dusk, and whose birth is from the house of death. o ye two divine hawks upon your pinnacles, who keep watch over the universe! ye who company the bier unto the house of rest. ye who pilot the ship of ra, ever advancing onwards unto the heights of heaven! lord of the shrine which standeth in the centre of the earth! behold he is in me and i in him! mine is the radiance in which ptah floateth over his firmament. i travel upon high. i tread upon the firmament of nu. i raise a flashing flame with the lightning of mine eye, ever rushing forward in the splendour of the daily glorified ra, gi

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of my journey, and went seeking a new prey. now in this cataract i had most surely been wrecked but that i clung tightly to the boat. this indeed floated as serenely as if it had been upon the still waters of a lake; and when i had a little plucked up courage, i saw sitting at the helm him that is appointed to steer; i saw him face to face. this then endured for a space; and with his aid i began ship-buildning "for (said he "there are many that swim, and find no boats. be it thy task to aid them" of my journey to the house he spake nothing. but in the ship-building came the fair man my brother to my help; and one evening as we sate at meat he said: may it please you to enter the house; for there is prepared for you a goodly bedchamber. but i would not at that time; for i was ashamed, bein

of one that may come to share my bed-chamber will i speak of the last adventure. upon the breast of the river came a wild swan, singing, and for a moment rested upon mine image reflected in the water. and i said "come up hither" and the wild swan said "how shall i come up thither "i" i will guide thee "the swan" who art thou "i" my father is the keeper of the king's cup: i have prepared a little ship wherein i may go my journeys upon the great river. who will draw it "the swan" i will draw it. so we set forth together; and of the horrible tempests that arose it is unworthy discourse. and of what followed after is discourse unprofitable; but the wild swan still guides my ship. 64 and the end shall be as is appointed by the master of the house; but this i know, that this ship is the king's

ner dips; some one has cut through the staff. the christians are in rout["four eunuchs enter, bearing the corpse of "othman. fatma. othman is dead! alas! alas! weep, mother, three brave boys beside their sire! all dead! dead! laylah["not turning from window. lay him beside his father and his two brothers! brave banner! brave 91 banner! we go through the christians as a wedge cleaves a plank, as a ship cleaves the sea, as a bird cleaves the air! victory! sliman! sliman! drive them, like cattle, to their walls again! fatma. she has always been mad! i wonder what really happened. laylah. the sun is setting in blood. there are storm-clouds lit like burning charcoal blown upon by the mightiest of the djinn. i cannot see the banner. it grows dark. they must stop fighting soon. they will withdraw

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fifths have reference only to the- 750- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust two great groups of asekha initiates. adepts who pass upon the ray path have to possess attributes which make them exceedingly responsive to vibration. in their group work (regarding all the units upon this path as forming a unified whole) the results achieved might be compared to that of a compass upon a ship. they respond primarily to a basic vibration, not through sensation but through that which is the outgrowth of sensation. it is a form of realisation which is the cosmic correspondence to the reaction which comes when the skin is touched. it is not consciousness but knowledge through vibration. they are themselves identified with a certain vibration and they respond to that vibration alone wh

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of world activity. they thus exploit the masses, and twist the situation to their own ends, sometimes with the best intentions, sometimes because they see their chance to arrive at power and prominence, and sometimes because life, destiny, fate or karma (we can use whichever word we like) casts them for that position, and they become men of destiny. they find themselves with their hand upon some ship of state, and are the controlling agent in some party, some group and in some political, religious or economic situation. yet all the time they are but pawns in the hands of those who are working to some wider end. this whole matter might be looked at from two angles, and it may profit us to do so, remembering always that the objective of the new social order, of the new politics and the new

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

e. whether these men had a good time is another matter, but they were unfailingly nice to me. one of them later sent me a lot of religious books for one of the soldiers homes. another sent a nice, fat cheque and still another, a prominent railroad man, sent me a free pass on the great indian peninsula railroad which i used all the time i was in india. when we got to bombay i had expected to trans-ship there and take the british india boat to karachi and so on to quetta, baluchistan. but it was not to be at that time, though i did do that trip later. i found a wire awaiting me, telling me to get off at bombay and take the express to meerut, which is in central india. i was appalled. i had never in my life travelled alone before. i- 39- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust

he bombay railroad station i had a very human and educational experience. this experience goes to show how wonderful human beings are, which, if you will note, is one thing i can and do prove in this book. i was, as you may have gathered, a consummate prig, even if well-intentioned. i was almost too good to live and certainly holy enough to be hated. i had taken no part in the current life of the ship, but had strutted about the deck with my large bible under my arm. there was one man on the ship who was my pet abhorrence and had been ever since i left london. he was the life of the ship; he handled the daily sweepstakes; he got up the dances and arranged the theatricals; he played cards and i knew that he drank an inordinate amount of whiskies and sodas. the voyage took three weeks in tho

s nothing that i could do and i realised that i must handle my life alone and do what was best for the three little girls. the war in europe was in full swing. every relative that i had was involved. the small income i- 71- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust had came to me erratically. it was heavily taxed and the bank draft sometimes never arrived owing to the sinking of the ship on which the mails went. i was in a most difficult position; without a relative in the country to whom i could go and (apart from the bishop and his wife) no friends to whom i cared to talk. i was surrounded by kind and good friends, however, but none of them were in a position to do anything for me and looking back now i question if i ever let them know how serious the situation was. the bis

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n the rainbow bridge be built. 6. go out among the sons of men and heal and lift, but balance keep and breadth of view. all ways are good. september 1943 brother of mine: it seems to me that so oft i have to say this year to hard-pressed chelas: the way has been difficult. but so it is, and your way in life has been no exception. great waves of karmic impact have beaten upon our earth that little ship adrift in time and space and sailing the great ocean of the cosmos. the lords of karma have looked towards our planet. energy follows thought and that, my brother, is all that karma is the impact of directed energy upon the earth, upon the kingdoms in nature, upon man and upon the individual disciple. much of this karma, especially now, is not individual in purpose, nor is it generated in any

certain "will-full" men; they have loosed great evil upon the earth. but this karma will also produce the stimulation of goodwill, and thus lasting good will offset temporary evil. this must not be forgotten. the problems which have confronted you as an individual, as a disciple and as a member of the new group of world servers have been difficult, but you are weathering the storm and your little ship will live through the gale. all is preparatory to an increased output in service service which will develop normally without undue planning, and which will be accessory to your life task of meeting your home and your healing responsibilities. this, as i hinted in your six seed thoughts last year, is summed up in the words there found "your duty and your goal go hand in hand" this condition is

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f anyone. 2. the forces of spiritual purpose, embodied in the will to protect the rights of others, along with individual rights; to end aggression and its consequent fear, and to throw the weight of their combined influence on to the side of the most spiritual values, of human freedom, of the right to think, and of kindness. i use the word "kindness" advisedly because it embodies the idea of kin-ship, of brotherhood and of right human relations. it is world goodwill in expression, just as the will-to-good is the basis of any possible peace a goodwill which would negate any premature peace at this time, because the latter would give time for the forces of materialism to consolidate their gains and prepare the way for further aggression. kindness, the will-to-good and peace such should be t

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m. scorpio is 'the monster of darkness, who stings to death, and yet preserves and reproduces, symbolizing not only generation but regeneration. as the latter it is aquila, the eagle, the bird of the sun which has conquered the dark side of scorpio (that adversary that can drag man down lower than the beasts, but when transmuted is the eagle of light, which can exalt above the gods" the celestial ship of the north. vol. i (e. v. straiton. the "eye of the bull" in taurus, the magnificent fixed star, aldebaran, is one of the reasons why this constellation is regarded as conferring illumination. in ancient days it was called the leading star of the heavens, and taurus has always been connected with light and, therefore, with christ, who proclaimed himself as the light of the world. light, ill

ves to peter. the keys to the two principal gates of the zodiac, which are the two solsticial points, the zodiacal signs cancer and capricorn, called the gates of the sun. through cancer, or the 'gate of man, the soul descends upon earth (to unite with the body, which is its spiritual death. through capricorn, the 'gate [86] of the gods, it reascends to heaven (e. valentia straiton, the celestial ship of the north vol. ii, p. 206. in the zodiac of denderah, the sign cancer is represented by a beetle, called in egypt, the scarab. the word "scarab" means "only begotten; it stands, therefore, for birth into incarnation, or, in relation to the aspirant, for the new birth. the month of june, in ancient egypt was called "meore, which again means rebirth, and thus both the sign and the name hold

through which souls were said to descend from their heavenly home to earth, just as at the winter solstice in december, they were said to return to their heavenly or celestial home, the constellation capricorn, the other gate of the sun. capricorn was the sign from which sungods were said to the born at the winter solstice and made sacred to the sons of light (e. valentia straiton, the celestial ship of the north, vol. ii, p. 205- 53- the labours of hercules symbols the astrological symbol for the sign cancer has no relation at all to the crab. it is composed of two "asses" tails, and these again link up the gospel story with the story of the manger. in connection with the birth of jesus two asses appear, the one on which the virgin rode down to bethlehem, prior to the birth, and the othe

er of these groups of stars, for in the chaldean, persian, indian and egyptian zodiacs, no bear is found. the names most commonly use are those of "the sheepfold, or "the flock of sheep" and an analysis of the hebrew and arabic names [91] for the stars found in these constellations will be found to prove the fact that the ancient names signify "the lesser flock "the sheepfold "the sheep, and "the ship. in the thirty-fourth chapter of ezekiel and in the tenth chapter of st. john, is much that has reference to these constellations. ursa minor is famous because the brightest star in it is the pole star, the north star. in the symbolism of these two constellations we have held before us the thought of the mass or group, which is the significant influence of the work carried forward in the sign

the story of the evolution of matter in form, of consciousness, of spirit and of life. argo stretches all the way from cancer to capricorn and is one of the largest of the constellations. it has in it sixty-four stars, of which the brightest is canopus. its symbolism [92] therefore, covers the life of the aspirant from the time he takes incarnation until he has reached his goal. we use the word "ship" quite frequently in a symbolic sense, speaking of the "ship of state, the "ship of salvation, and conveying ever the idea of security, of progress, and of the achieving of a way out, of the making of a journey and of the carrying of a vast crowd of pilgrims in search of golden treasure or a new and freer home. the pilgrims are equipped with instinct, and as they pass through the various cons

ecliptic, its first point being called aries, 0 degrees. it is divided into twelve equal parts called 'signs of the zodiac, each containing thirty degrees of space, and on it is measured the right ascension of the celestial bodies. the movable or natural zodiac is a succession of constellations forming a belt of 47 degrees in width, lying north and south of the ecliptic" glossary of the celestial ship of the north. walter h. sampson gives us a very simple explanation of the imaginary belt. he says "the zodiac, properly speaking, is that belt of the heavens through which passes the apparent path of the sun; its point of commencement is the vernal equinox which, as we know, is in continuous retrograde movement through a circle of constellations which lie near the ecliptic. the zodiac is divi

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evotion on the river bank, a fish craves his protection from a bigger fish. he saves and places it in a jar, where, growing larger and larger, it communicates to him the news of the forthcoming deluge. it is the well-known "matsya avatar" the first avatar of vishnu, the dagon* of the chaldean xisuthrus, and many other things besides. the story is too well known to need repetition. vishnu orders a ship to be built, in which manu is said to be saved along with the seven rishis, the latter, however, being absent from other texts. here the seven rishis stand for the seven races, the seven principles, and various other things; for there is again a double mystery involved in this manifold allegory. we have said elsewhere that the great flood had several meanings, and that it referred, as also do

absent from other texts. here the seven rishis stand for the seven races, the seven principles, and various other things; for there is again a double mystery involved in this manifold allegory. we have said elsewhere that the great flood had several meanings, and that it referred, as also does the fall, to both spiritual and physical, cosmic and terrestrial, events: as above, so it is below. the ship or ark- navis- in short, being the symbol of the female generative principle, is typified in the heavens by the moon, and on earth by the womb: both being the vessels and bearers of the seeds of life and being, which the sun, or vishnu, the male principle, vivifies and fructifies* the first cosmic flood refers to primordial creation, or the formation of heaven and the earths; in which case ch

the commentaries may become clearer[[footnote(s* to this day the aborigines of caucasus speak of their mountains as kap-kaz, using the consonant p instead of the usual v (kavkaz or caucasus. but their bards say that it requires seven months for a swift horse to reach the "dry land" beyond kaf, holding north without ever deviating from one's way* bailly thought he saw in this horse a twelve-oared ship. the secret doctrine teaches that the early third race built boats and flotillas before it built houses. but the "horse" though a much later animal, has, nevertheless, a more occult primitive meaning. the crocodile and the hippopotamus were held sacred and represented divine symbols, both with the ancient egyptians and with the mexicans. poseidon is, in homer, the god of the horse, and assume

thoth (hermes. in[[pistis sophia, the seven great gods, divided into two triads and the highest god (the sun) are: the lower[[tridunameis, whose powers reside respectively in mars, mercury and venus; and the higher triad("the three unseen gods) who dwell in the moon, jupiter and saturn (vide 359 and 361 et seq. this requires no proof. astoreth was in one sense an impersonal symbol of nature, the ship of life carrying throughout the boundless sidereal ocean the germs of all being. and when she was not identified with venus, like every other "queen of heaven" to whom cakes and buns were offered in sacrifice, astoreth became the reflection of the[[vol. 2, page] 463 christian symbolism chaldean "nuah, the universal mother (female noah, considered as one with the ark, and of the female triad

when blended into one "sovereign goddess, lady of the nether abyss, mother of gods, queen of the earth, and queen of fecundity" later, belita or damti (the sea, the mother of the city of erech (the great chaldean necropolis) became eve; and now she is mary the virgin, in the latin church, represented as standing on the crescent-moon, and, at times on the globe, to vary the programme. the navi, or ship-like form of the crescent, which blends in itself all those common symbols of the ship of life, such as noah's ark, the yoni of the hindus, and the ark of the covenant, is the female symbol of the universal "mothers of the gods" and is now found under its christian symbol in every church, as the nave (from navis, the ship* the navis- the sidereal vessel- is fructified by the spirit of life- t

southwards, curving round near cape de verde, and running in a south-easterly direction along the west african coast. this elevation averages some 9,000 feet in height, and rises above the waves at the azores, ascension, and other places. in the ocean depths around the neighbourhood of the former the ribs of a former massive piece of land have been discovered (vide investigations of united states ship "dolphin" and others "the inequalities, the mountains and valleys of its surface could never have been produced in accordance with any known laws for the deposition of sediment, nor by submarine elevation; but, on the contrary, must have been carved by agencies acting above the water-level (scientific american, july 28th, 1877. it is most probable that necks of land formerly existed knitting

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e second creation (anugita, ch. xxvi. and the translator (an able and learned brahmin, not a european orientalist) explains in a foot-note (6 "i.e, when mahat develops into the feeling of self-consciousness- i- then it assumes the name of egoism" which, translated into our esoteric phraseology, means when mahat is transformed into the human manas (or even that of the finite gods, and becomes aham-ship. why it is called the mahat of the second creation (or the ninth, that of the kumara in vishnu purana) will be explained in book ii. the "sea of fire" is then the super-astral (i.e, noumenal) light, the first radiation from the root, the mulaprakriti, the undifferentiated cosmic substance, which becomes astral matter. it is also called the "fiery serpent" as above described. if the student be

smic matter, suddenly launched into being, begins life under the most hostile circumstances. through a series of countless ages, it has to conquer[[vol. 1, page] 204 the secret doctrine. for itself a place in the infinitudes. it circles round and round between denser and already fixed bodies, moving by jerks, and pulling towards some given point or centre that attracts it, trying to avoid, like a ship drawn into a channel dotted with reefs and sunken rocks, other bodies that draw and repel it in turn; many perish, their mass disintegrating through stronger masses, and, when born within a system, chiefly within the insatiable stomachs of various suns (see comm. to stanza iv. those which move slower and are propelled into an elliptic course are doomed to annihilation sooner or later. others

hypnotise the bird with their eye, and man himself, very often, does not feel above their fascinating influence; therefore the symbol is a most fitting one. the crocodile is the egyptian dragon. it was the dual symbol of heaven and earth, of sun and moon, and was made sacred, in consequence of its amphibious nature, to osiris and isis. according to eusebius, the egyptians represented the sun in a ship as its pilot, this ship being carried along by a crocodile "to show the motion of the sun in the moyst (space (prepar. evang, 1, 3, c. 3. the crocodile was moreover, the symbol of egypt herself- the lower, as being the more swampy of the two countries. the alchemists claim another interpretation. they say that the symbol of the sun in the ship on the ether of space meant that the hermetic mat

over, the symbol of egypt herself- the lower, as being the more swampy of the two countries. the alchemists claim another interpretation. they say that the symbol of the sun in the ship on the ether of space meant that the hermetic matter is the principle, or basis, of gold, or again the philosophical sun; the water, within which the crocodile is swimming, is that water or matter made liquid; the ship herself, finally, representing the vessel of nature, in which the sun, or the sulphuric, igneous principle, acts as a pilot: because it is the sun[[vol. 1, page] 410 the secret doctrine. which conducts the work by his action upon the moist or mercury. the above is only for the alchemists. the serpent became the type and symbol of evil, and of the devil, only during the middle ages. the early

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now here is the mystery of the origin of evil. firstly, by evil we mean that which is in opposition to our own wills: it is therefore a relative, and not an absolute, term. for everything which is the greatest evil of some one is the greatest good of some other, just as the hardness of the wood the equinox 124 which wearieth the axeman is the safety of him that ventureth himself upon the sea in a ship built of that wood. and this is a truth easy to apprehend, being superficial, and intelligible to the common mind. all evil is thus relative, or apparent, or illusory: but, returning to philosophy, i will repeat that its root is always in duality. therefore the escape from this apparent evil is to seek the unity, which you shall do as i have already shewn you. but i will make mention of that

entry. will write down a few of the events that i remember during that time. have done some slight morning and evening practice almost every day. have occupied a fair amount of time in giving what instructions i can on occult matters to those who have requested information. s. and l. have become sufficiently interested to apply for studentship, and w. has at last written and asked re probationer-ship. have heard finally from fra p.a. and answered his letter. nov. 26, 11:40 to 11:55 p.m. meditation on love. commenced with sending love to the six directions of space (see training of the mind, the equinox, vol. 5. became identified with love to the exclusion of all other ideas. it is verily a dew which dissolves thought [dangerous, though, for a beginner. often means little more than the mau

e on of horus is made manifest by the universal war. this is the first great and direct result of the equinox of the gods, and is the preparation of the hearts of men for the reception of the law. let us remind you that this is a magical formula of cosmic scope, and that it is given in exact detail in the legend of the golden fleece. jason, who in this story represents the beast, first fits out a ship guided by wisdom or athena, and this is his aspiration to the great work. accompanied by many heroes, he comes to the place of the fleece, but they can do nothing until medea, the scarlet woman, puts into his hands a posset .drugged with somnolence, sleepy with poppy and white hellebore. for the dragon. then jason is able to subdue the bulls, sacred to osiris, and symbolical of his on and the

nd through the arupa-brahma-lokas, exhaust that karma, be reincarnated as a spiroch tes pallida, and have to begin over again. and the most virtuous bhikkhu might be so unfortunate as to fall from virtue the millionth part of a second before his point on the circumference of the sphere was going to touch that of the wheel of nibbana, regain it two millionths of a second later, and thus find arhat-ship indefinitely postponed. i then said: o most excellent expounder of the good law, prithee explain to me the exact difference between this doctrine and that which we heard from shri parananda that the attainment of samadhi, though it depended to some extent upon the attainment of the yogi, depended also upon the seven portals 77 the grace of the lord shiva, and that yoga did us no good unless t

he people who cultivated the rice had to destroy a lot of vermin too. one cannot escape responsibility in this vicarious way. it is peculiarly silly, because the whole point of buddha.s position is that there is no escape. the buddhist regulations are comparable to orders which might have been, but were not, because he was not mad, given by the captain of the titanic to caulk the planks after the ship had been cut in two. 83. know, o narjol, thou of the secret path, its pure fresh waters must be used to sweeter make the ocean.s bitter the seven portals 115 waves.that mighty sea of sorrow formed of the tears of men. 84. alas! when once thou hast become like the fixed star in highest heaven, that bright celestial orb must shine from out the spatial depths for all.save for itself; give light

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s: see transportation. roses: see flowers. ruins: failure of plans. sacrifice: overcoming pride. school: a place of learning; a need to learn. scissors: distrust. sea: see ocean. self-image: the inner or spiritual self. the age indicates maturity or the lack of it. sex: union of opposites; union of male and female principles; satisfaction; completeness. shadow: the subconscious; insubstantiality. ship: see transportation. skeleton: the basics; the root of a problem. snake: spiritual wisdom; transcendence into a state of wisdom. snake-bite: infusion of wisdom (bites are not usually painful in dreams. soldiers: force; power; regimentation. spade: penetration; cutting; tough work lies ahead. sunrise: clearing of consciousness; awakening. sunset: need to protect assets. swan: beauty; comfort;

last (ninth) knot, all the energy is directed into the cord and its knots, with a final visualization of the object of the work. the power has been raised and is now "stored" in these knots in the cord. there are old woodcuts, from the middle ages, which show witches selling knotted cords to sailors. they were supposed to have tied-up winds in the cords so that if the sailor needed a wind for his ship he just untied a knot and got it one knot for a light breeze, two for a strong wind and three for a gale! why would you want to store a spell? for some magick, the time for it to happen is important. suppose, for example, that you want something constructive to happen but the most propitious time for it to do so happens to be close to the new moon. do you do your constructive magick during th

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tieth century, my father's family were canal people and my father grew up at a time when the boats were still a major form of transport for coal and iron. some of these midland canal people were known as 'water witches' because they practised a religion based on the sacredness of water and earth. their symbol was the six-spoked sun wheel, painted on their boats. this sign was once thought to be a ship's wheel, but this is improbable, since canal boats have large rudders. unlike the romany gypsies, the midland water witches were descended from the friesian seafarers of the netherlands and 1876 a book entitled oer linda was published, named after the family who had been custodians of the wisdom since the sixth century bc. some insist the manuscript is a forgery and that the existing version

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d as a priest-figure of the african tradition. known among the conspirators as "the little man who can't be killed, shot or taken" jack adopted conventions of ritual that were characteristic of obeah rebels in the caribbean "he had a charm, and he would lead them" claimed vesey. it was believed that jack had carried his conjuring implements "with him in a bag which he brought on board the [slave] ship" he distributed\ 67\ crab-claw talismans he called cullah for invulnerability, and poison, which was to be used in a preemptive attack on the enemy. jack also conducted african-based rituals of oath taking among his gullah society members, who read psalms, prayed, and swore their allegiance to the movement. a fowl, eaten half-raw and shared among them, was their "evidence of union"[19] within

schuler, alas, alas kongo: a social history of indentured african immigration in jamaica, 1841.1865 (baltimore: johns hopkins university press, 1980; leonard barrett "african religion in the americas: the islands in between" in african religions: a symposium, ed. newell s. booth (new york: nok, 1977, pp. 195.98. on shared ritual structures in diaspora traditions, see especially walter pitts, old ship of zion: the afro-baptist ritual in the african diaspora (new york: oxford university press, 1993; stephen glazier, marchin' the pilgrims home: a study of the spiritual baptists of trinidad (salem, wis: sheffield publishing, 1983. on african christianity see harold w. turner, religious innovation in africa: collected essays on new religious movements (boston: g. k. hall, 1979; david barrett

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g forward, which were all full of lights. above each of them on the top hovered a flame that passed to and fro, and page 57 sometimes descended right down, so that i could easily judge that it must be the spirits of the beheaded. now these ships gently approached land, and each of them had no more than one mariner. as soon as they had come to shore, i saw our virgin with a torch going towards the ship, after whom the six covered coffins were carried, together with the little chest, and each of them was secretly laid in a ship. so i awakened my page too, who greatly thanked me, for, having run up and down a lot all day, he might have slept through this altogether, though he knew quite well about it. now as soon as the coffins were laid in the ships, all the lights were extinguished, and the

f them was secretly laid in a ship. so i awakened my page too, who greatly thanked me, for, having run up and down a lot all day, he might have slept through this altogether, though he knew quite well about it. now as soon as the coffins were laid in the ships, all the lights were extinguished, and the six flames passed back together over the lake, so that there was no more than one light in each ship for a watch. there were also some hundreds of watchmen who had encamped themselves on the shore, and sent the virgin back again into the castle; she carefully bolted everything up again, so that i could judge that there was nothing more to be done this night, but that we must await the day. so we again took ourselves to rest. and i only of all my company had a chamber towards the lake, and sa

ix ships, they caused us thus to begin our voyage in god s name, and looked upon us as long as they could have us in sight, after which they, with all the watchmen, returned into the castle. our ships each had a peculiar device. five of them indeed had the five regular bodies, each their own, but mine, in which the virgin sat too, carried a globe. thus we sailed on in a particular order, and each ship the moor lay. in this were twelve musicians, who played excellently well, and its device was a pyramid. next followed three abreast, b, c, and d, in which we were. i sat in c. in the middle behind these came the two fairest and stateliest ships, e and f, stuck about with many branches of laurel, having no passengers in them; their flags were the sun and moon. but in the rear was only one ship

selves. and they were congratulated with most profound reverence by us, for which the king himself most graciously returned his thanks, and again reassured us of all grace. it was already about five o clock, so they could no longer stay, but as soon as the best of their furniture could be laden, we had to attend the young royal persons down the winding stairs, through all doors and watches to the ship. in this they embarked, together with certain virgins and cupid, and sailed so very swiftly that we soon lost sight of them; but they were met (as i was informed) by certain stately ships. thus in four hours time they had gone many leagues out to sea. after five o clock the musicians were charged to carry all things back again to the ships, and to make themselves ready for the voyage. but bec

ould try to take nothing more than this token of remembrance. herewith we went forth to the sea, where our ships lay, so richly equipped that it was not possible but that such amazing things must first have been brought there. the ships were twelve in number, six of ours, and six of the old lord s, who caused his ships to be freighted with well appointed soldiers. but he himself came to us in our ship, where we were all together. in the first the musicians, of which the old lord also had a great number, seated themselves; they sailed before us to shorten the time. our flags were the twelve celestial signs, and we sat in libra. besides other things our ship also had a noble and curious clock, which showed us all the minutes. the sea was so calm, too, that it was a singular pleasure to sail

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any jewish people suffered appallingly) are beginning to mount. it was part of the elite's strategy to involve the us and increase the post-war demands for a world authority to stop further wars. this was not too much of a problem because the president, woodrow wilson, did whatever his chief 'advisor, colonel house (comm 300, told him to do. in 1915, the german sinking of the american 'passenger' ship, the lusitania, was an excuse for the us to declare war, just as the assassination of ferdinand had been for the germans, and the attack on pearl harbor would be for the americans in world war ii. the lusitania was sailed from rhodes to ruin 67 into an area of known german u-boat activity without an escort, and the people on board were sacrificed to satisfy the elite's horrific ambitions. in

he archives of the us treasury department, president wilson concealed proof that the lusitania was carrying military supplies for the british.9 it was not the 'passengers-only' vessel it was claimed to be as part of the propaganda to outrage american public opinion. alfred gwynne vanderbilt of the eastern establishment family was on the lusitania when it sank. a telegram had been delivered to the ship before it left new york warning vanderbilt not to sail, but it never reached him and it cost him his life. someone obviously knew exactly what was planned. the manipulation of america into the war was coordinated through three main organisations: the council on national defense, the navy league, and the league to enforce peace. among the members of the council on national defense was the roth

woodrow wilson, despite the efforts of the british police, made it possible for leon trotsky to enter russia with an american passport".16 this happened at a time when the us authorities were supposed to be tightening their checks on potential revolutionaries entering russia on united states passports! but who controlled wilson? the elite's representative, colonel edward house (comm 300. when the ship docked in canada en route, trotsky was detained by the canadian authorities, but he was released and allowed to continue his journey to russia. lieutenant colonel john bayne maclean, the founder and president of maclean publishing, was known for his close contacts with canadian intelligence. in 1918, he wrote an article which appeared in his own maclean's magazine, headed "why did we let trot

flood, the british military government began to detain and deport those jews who did not have the correct documentation. the zionist underground decided to sabotage the refugee ships rather than allow them to be turned away. giladi goes on "in those days rabin was a member of palmach- the name means 'action squads- it was a violent underground force .in november 1940 his group blew up the refugee ship master races 123 patria in haifa harbour. more than 250 jewish emigrants died in the explosion".7 three other ships were later given the same treatment by rabin's palmach and more than a thousand jews died as a result. but it was the arabs who were blamed for this barbarity and that was the whole point of the carnage, of course. the zionist leader, david ben-gurion, wrote in his diary that th

ever, in european union. monnet went to canada in 1910, at the age of just twenty to seek new markets for the family brandy business. there he linked up with the hudson bay company and the lazard brothers banking operation and became part of the anglo-american scene, even though he was french. he became a confidant to presidents and prime ministers, and this won him a highly lucrative contract to ship materials from canada to france during the first world war. when the war ended he was appointed to the allied supreme economic council and he became advisor to the group around lord milner (comm 300) and colonel house (comm 300, which was preparing the treaty of versailles and creating the league of nations. by 1919, his influence and reputation among the manipulators was such that he was nam

d his election expenses, while at the same time it was also used to launder drug profits. nichols went on "there was a hundred million a month in cocaine coming in and out of mena [an airstrip] in arkansas. they had a problem..you create a problem in a little state like arkansas. how do you clean one hundred million dollars a month? adfa until 1989 never banked in arkansas. what they would do is .ship the money down to .a bank in florida which would later be connected to bcci. they would ship money to a bank in georgia, which was..later connected to the bcci. they'd ship to citicorp in new york, which would send the money overseas."42 326..and the truth shall set you free at the centre of this operation was clinton's closest friend, dan lasater, who would be jailed with the president's bro

orge bush, and the cia was also revealed by businessman terry reed and his co-author, john cummings, in their 1994 book, compromised: clinton, bush, and the cm.46 reed was a former us airforce intelligence officer who became a successful businessman. he was recruited by the cia to set up a cia front company in mexico selling high technology and consultancy. when reed realised it was being used to ship drugs, he tried to get out of the operation and to return to arkansas, then governed by clinton. as usual, clinton and the cia sought to silence and discredit reed by accusing him of what they were doing. he was charged by clinton and the arkansas authorities with drug running! reed also reveals in his book how time the one party states 329 magazine and other publications and newspapers were

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civilisation. the historian, alexander polyhistor (born 105bc) wrote that these beings were amphibious and were happier to go back to the sea at night.29 they are described as "semi-demons (half human, half not human) and animals endowed with reason.30 other legends say that they were superhuman in their knowledge and their length of life. they were "the immortals" and returned to "the gods" in a ship, taking with them examples of the earth's fauna. interestingly, the dogon call sirius "the land of the fish" and "the pure earth, and the day the nommo landed on our earth is known as the "day of the fish".31 the babylonian priest berossus wrote that the origin of humans in babylonian belief could be traced to the "fish god" oannes, who was known as dagon to the philistines. what they said ab

own as the "day of the fish".31 the babylonian priest berossus wrote that the origin of humans in babylonian belief could be traced to the "fish god" oannes, who was known as dagon to the philistines. what they said about oannes, the sumerians said about "enki, one of the key leaders of their reptilian anunnaki. enki was symbolised as closely connected with water and it was said that he rode in a ship that could go under the water or fly in the sky. he was described as a giant who had scales like a fish or reptile. in the babylonian legend, oannes was one of the "annedoti("the repulsive ones) who had the heads and legs of men, but the body and tail of a fish.32 this is the origin of the mermaid stories, no doubt. the greek gods known as the "old men of the sea" were depicted as "mermen. it

arrival of the nommo in an "ark" that sounds very much like a spacecraft. robert temple says the dogon indicate that the nommo landed in the region of egypt and describe the tremendous noise and vibration when the "ark" landed, causing a whirlwind of dust. they say of the nommo, a term they also use in the singular "he is like a flame that went out when he touched the earth" dogon legend says the ship, or "ark, landed on three legs, temple writes. a larger craft hovered in the atmosphere. the nommo said that some of their number would be called "the disrupters, and one would "die on the cross, the dogon legends apparently say.35 peruvian creation myths tell of a great disk that came out of the sky and landed on an island called the island of the sun. this is a place i have visited twice on

continued to be seeded for this purpose ever since, hence the stories of humans forced to have sex with, or being artificially impregnated by, non-human entities. the sumerian records say that the crossbreed hybrids of the anunnaki were placed into the positions of royal ruling power during the golden age and throughout the sumer empire. this happened, the tablets document, when anu bestowed "anu-ship (later called kingship) on 78 children of the matrix humanity by creating the bloodlines to rule on behalf of the gods. kingship is really kin-ship- bloodline. this is also the true origin and meaning of the ancient theme of the "divine right of kings, the right to rule because of your genetic history. it is not the divine or "god, at all. it is the right bestowed by the "gods, the anunnaki

aning. but to the illuminati the g represents the generative principle of expanding and protecting their bloodlines. the point within the circle also represents the impregnation of the female (circle) and with the male (point. on one level this is another sun symbol and can be found on the grave of president kennedy as a flame and circle, but the real meaning is bloodline. it is the same with the ship symbols you see on freemasonic buildings. the hull is the female (that's why ships are always "she) and the mast is the phallus impregnating her. lower-degree masons are told that the circle and the point represents the individual mason (point) restricted by the boundary line of duty (the circle. what a hoot. all these secret society symbols and codes have a meaning for the lower initiates (u

d nose and was very human looking other than his eyes, and had kind of greying skin..later on in 1991, i was working in a building in a large city, and i had taken a break about 6pm and the next thing i knew it was 10.30pm and i thought i had taken a short break. i started remembering that i was taken aboard a [spaceship, through four floors of the office building and through a roof. there on the ship is where i encountered germans and americans working together, and also grey aliens, and then we were taken to some other kind of facility and there i saw reptilians again..the ones i call the 'baby godzilla's' that have short teeth and yellow slantedeyes. the things that stick in my minds are the beings that look like reptiles, or the 'velcoci-rapters. they are the cruellest beings you could

udely made to look like suicide. schneider, speaking at a public lecture a year earlier, said: 262 children of the matrix..for every calendar year that transpires, military technology increases about 44.5 years [compared with the increase rate of 'conventional' technology. this is why it is easy to understand that back in 1943 they were able to create, through the use of vacuum tube technology, a ship that could literally disappear from one place and appear in another place" this was a reference to the "philadelphia experiment" in which a us naval ship is alleged to have been made invisible and taken into another dimension. another of the underground bases schneider helped to build is under the new denver international airport, east of denver. the construction was very controversial becaus

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sister to anu and this union passed on the male genes moreefficiently than enkis birth via another mother. later the tablets describe how theanunnaki created bloodlines to rule humanity on their behalf and these, i suggest, arethe families still in control of the world to this day. the sumerian tablets describe howkingship was granted to humanity by the anunnaki and it was originally known as anu-ship after an or anu, the ruler of the gods. the brotherhood families are obsessedwith bloodlines and genetic inheritance and they interbreed without regard for love. theroyal families (family) and aristocracy of europe and the so-called easternestablishment families in the united states are obvious examples of this. they are ofthe same tribe and genetically related. this is why the brotherhood fa

is too much. i have seen this kind of being on more than oneoccasion. he had a hooked nose and was very human looking, other than his eyes, andhad kind of greyish skin. later on in 1991,1 was working in a building in a large city, and i had taken a breakabout 6pm and the next thing i knew it was 1o.3opm and i thought i had taken a shortbreak. i started remembering that i was taken aboard a (space)ship, through four floors ofthe office building and through a roof. there on the ship is where i encountered germansand americans working together, and also grey aliens, and then we were taken to someother kind of facility and there i saw reptilians again. the ones i call the baby godzil lasthat have short teeth and yellow slanted eyes. the things that stick in my mind are thebeings that look like

icans working together, and also grey aliens, and then we were taken to someother kind of facility and there i saw reptilians again. the ones i call the baby godzil lasthat have short teeth and yellow slanted eyes. the things that stick in my mind are thebeings that look like reptiles, or the velcoci-rapters. they are the cruellest beings youcould ever imagine and they even smell hideous.41on the ship she remembers seeing the germans and americans wearing an insignia, ablue triangle with a red-eyed dragon and circle around it. a contact later told her that shesaw the same symbol at fort walden in the united states. a winged serpent symbol couldalso be seen on the sleeve of an israeli soldier as he comforted the daughter of theassassinated prime minister, yitzhak rabin, at her fathers funer

so known as dragons and all this symbolism relates to the knowledge thatthese royal families were the bloodlines of the reptile-human crossbreeds. when manykingdoms joined together in battle, they appointed a king of kings and he was known asthe great dragon or. draco. the famous celtic title, pendragon, is a version of this.kingship actually originates from the word kin or blood relative and kin-ship becamekingship. just to emphasise the point about the reptile bloodlines here, the name theegyptians gave to their sacred messeh or crocodile was. draco. this also became asymbol of the egyptian therapeutate and their branch in israel called the essenes, andit was represented as a sea serpent or bistea neptunis by the royal merovingians andtheir decendents in france. the same tribe, all of th

y and richard henry lee, who led a rebellion by thevirginia assembly in 1769. the situation came to a head with the passing of the tea actwhich allowed that brotherhood operation, the british east india company, to unload itssurplus tea in the colonies without paying duty. this clearly destroyed the market foreveryone else. official history to this day says that a group of mohawk indians boardeda ship called the dartmouth in boston harbour and threw its cargo of tea into the water.this was dubbed: the boston tea party. in fact the rebels were not mohawk indians,but members of the st andrews freemasons lodge in boston dressed up as indians.they were led by their junior warden, paul revere. this event could not have happenedwithout support from the british-controlled colonial militia who had

er for the companywas completed by april 10th 1606. this and later updates to the charter established thefollowing:the virginia company comprised of two branches, the london company and theplymouth or new england company. the former was responsible for the firstpermanent colony in america at jamestown on may 14th 1607 and the latter werethe so-called pilgrim fathers who arrived at cape cod in the ship the mayflower,in november 1620, and went on to land in plymouth harbour on december 21st.the pilgrims of american historical myth were, in fact, members of the secondvirginia company branch called the new england companythe virginia company owned most of the land of what we now call the usa, andany lands up to 900 miles offshore. this included bermuda and most of what is nowknown as the carib

ers of the city of london.after the first 21 years from the formation of the virginia company, all duties,imposts, and excises paid on trading activities in the colonies had to be paid directlyto the british crown through the crown treasurer. no trader could export goods outof the colonies without the permission of the british crown and to do so wouldinvolve the seizure of all their goods and the ship or vehicle which carried them.the lands of the virginia company were granted to the colonies under a deed oftrust (on lease) and therefore they could not claim ownership of the land. theycould pass on the perpetual use of the land to their heirs or sell the perpetual use, butthey could never own it. ownership was retained by the british crown.the colonial lands were to be governed by two colo

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n faiths the 5 tions of the tree. this has been done b y crowley, and is, i fancy, original work and not rtrl mathers. its implications are not altogether 108 the mystical qabalah mystical qabala page 72 [page 108] clear to me, and i doubt if i could subscribe to all of thern an immensely wide range of scholarship is necessary for the satisfactory accomplishment of this branch, a range of scholar ship which i do not possess. i shall therefore content myself with touching upon such points as have come within the range of my knowledge and make no attempt in the present pages at an ordered classification. 21. section 10. the flashing colours.-this is only of use to advanced students who possess the necessary keys. chapter xv kether, the first sephirah title: kether, the crown (hebrew spelling

a process is afoot. primitive man, who is much more psychic than civilised man, his mind not being so elaborately organised by education, is intuitively aware that there is a subtle something behind any highly organised unit of natural force that differentiates it from every other unit. humans are subconsciously aware of this to a greater degree than they will admit; it is not for nothing that a ship is "she" and that we speak of "father thames" a savage, then, feeling this life behind phenomena, tries to get into touch with it in order that he may come to terms with it. as he obviously cannot hope to conquer it, he must make terms with it, just as he would with other alien lives ensouled in the bodies of another tribe. in order to come to terms there must be a parley. one cannot make ter

"designed" in hod; this final "proving, correcting, and disposing of the unity" of these "representations" or formative images resulting in the organisation of the "machinery of the universe" the vision of which constitutes the spiritual experience of this sephirah. in fact, yesod might aptly be described as the sphere of the machinery of the universe. if we liken the kingdom of earth to a great ship, then yesod would be the engine-room. 4. yesod is the sphere of that peculiar substance, partaking of the nature of both mind and matter, which is called the ther of the wise, the akasha, or the astral light, according to the terminology that is being used. it is not the same as the ether of the physicists, mystical qabala page 173 which is the fire element of the sphere of malkuth; but is to

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fact which constitutes the real difference between normal union and self-abuse, and explains why the former is vitalising and harmonising, and the latter is exhausting and nerve-wrecking. may we not conceive it possible for anyone who can project the etheric body, or a being whose densest vehicle is etheric, to play a part in unions under certain conditions? and if we accept the theory of medium- ship, or of obsession, which is a pathological form of mediumship, what shall we say concerning the possibility of a union while one or other of the partners is under control? what maimer of soul might come through into incarnation under such conditions? 66 of 103 medieval tradition recognised two classes of demons which invade sleep, and called them incubi and succubi. these were held to be respo

xpansion or shifting of the level of consciousness. the higher self has descended and taken control. from being in the midst of turmoil one is suddenly raised high above it and sees all the circumstances of one's life spread out like a bird's-eye view, as one might see the land from a high place, and one knows intuitively the out come of the matter. all emotional turmoil ceases, and one is like a ship hove-to, securely riding out the storm. when this occurs to me, the memory of my past incarnations is always vividly present also. it is this simultaneous wakening of the past which makes me feel that the voice is that of my own higher self, and not of another entity. it is my belief that in times of spiritual crisis the man that has faith in the law of god can rise up and invoke its protecti

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the pyramids of gizeh, vol. ii, p. 84. a fragment of this sarcophagus is exhibited in the british museum, first egyptian room, case a, no. 6646. 5 with considerable difficulty this interesting monument was brought out from the pyramid by mr. raven, and having been cased in strong timbers, was sent off to the british museum. it was embarked at alexandria in the autumn of 1838, on board a merchant ship, which was supposed to have been lost off carthagena, as she never was heard of after her departure from leghorn on the 12th of october in that year, and as some parts of the wreck were picked up near the former port. the sarcophagus is figured by vyse, pyramids, vol. ii, plate facing p. 84] p. xx in a coarse woollen cloth of a yellow colour, to which a small quantity of resinous substance an

f the semites, p. 175) that the rite of draping and anointing a sacred stump supplies the answer to the unsolved question of the nature of the ritual practices connected with the ashera. that some sort of drapery belonged to the ashera is clear from 2 kings xxiii, 7. see also tylor, primitive culture, vol. ii, p. 150; and fraser, golden bough, vol. i, p. 304 ff] p. li plutarch's version. chest by ship to egypt, where she opened it and embraced the body of her husband, weeping bitterly. then she sought her son horus in buto, in lower egypt, first having hidden the chest in a secret place. but typhon, one night hunting by the light of the moon, found the chest, and, recognizing the body, tore it into fourteen pieces, which he scattered up and down throughout the land. when isis heard of this

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that my sister could be dead. she was buried three years ago "surely you have drunk deep from sorrow's cup" i said, as i noted the moisture in his eye and the sigh that followed his words "yes; sorrow is the lot of man. i haven't a living relative in the wide world; my father and my sister died in good circumstances, so that i have enough to keep me in comfort the rest of my days, but i am like a ship at sea without a rudder" i could think of little to comfort him. the most that i could do was to suggest that the best remedy in this world for grief is work. the man who keeps his brain and hands actively employed has no time for brooding sorrow "there can be no question of the truth of that, and i have thought hard over it, but am unable to fix upon any business toward which i do not feel a

ong one of the city streets, thinking of the sailing in the morning, the purser was accosted by a friend who introduced a quiet-looking young man whom he asked the purser to make a passenger with him on the morrow. the stranger wore a magnificent masonic emblem "he is a fugitive" said the friend "and must return before it is too late" the man who saved president diaz 169 "but i can't take him. my ship and my cargo might pay the forfeit" said the purser, shaking his head "but you must take him. he is your brother and his very life is at stake" was the stern answer. the purser wavered and then consented, promising to protect to the utmost the stranger in his cabin from spies and mexican officials who might be watching for the "rebel" leader. on the morning when the ship was passing out of th

y this time, then seizing the paper, he tore it to bits that were borne away by the lazy, sluggish gulf winds and lost in the wilderness of the blue waters. his answer was "i would not take you for money. i won't take money for saving you" the next in a series of incidents in this game-where the life of a nation, rather than the life of a man was at stakehappened off vera cruz, where the american ship came to anchor "you must put me ashore" begged the future ruler "it's death, man" pleaded the purser "i can't do it. if you are captured, i will be taken and so will the ship. and they will kill you "i must go l i will go! i will swim it" young diaz cried with that determination that afterward made him what he is to-day "it's madness, man. you will drown. the harbor is full of sharks. you wil

an-eating sharks, but manhunting soldiers, and sprang overboard. taking to the water, he headed toward the beach, and the friend who had protected him so far watched him with his glasses as he rose and fell with the waves, now tossed on their crests, now hidden behind them as they broke in combers on the sand bars. suddenly diaz turned back, and seemed swimming with redoubled effort to regain the ship. through the breakers there plunged a boat and from it came the glint of sunlight as the man who saved president diaz 173 the red rays struck on the drawn swords of soldiers. the man had been seen and was pursued. the race was an exciting one, but the swimmer had the start and was alongside as the purser shouted to the men in the fo'castle "line the starboard rail1 lower a line" and made a pl

were already coming up the gangway. the situation was critical, and a false move would have meant death to the young man. yankee wit, however, saved the day. seizing the wet :swimmer by his frowsy hair and giving him a heavy blow 'behind the ear, the purser threw him to the deck, and with an oath, pounced upon him and grabbed him by the throat "you drunken dog 1 you hound, i'll teach you to jump ship. i'll teach you to try to drown yourself" he cried. then, leaping to his feet, the purser gave orders to put the man into irons, and turning to the astonished soldiers, asked them what he could do for them. in broken english the leader explained that the country was in the throes of a civil war, and said that all ports were being watched for rebels, who had been driven from the country, but w

d to sail to america. it was in midsummer, and his intention was to return home for the christmas holidays. he embarked from liverpool for new 'fork, and almost immediately experienced an improvement in health and strength. when within a day's sail of land a dense fog settled over the vessel. a furious easterly gale set in. the captain lost his bearings, and hardly had the lead been cast when the ship was dashed upon the outer bar. this was before the establishment of that blessed institution of life saving along our ocean and lake coasts. the vessel was rapidly pounded to pieces. nearly all were washed from the wreck and drowned. when all hope was lost, the father lashed his child to a plank. he had no thought that either would be saved, but he uttered a prayer that the body of his child

gle he brought several cargoes of war supplies into french ports, and on one occasion came very near losing his life. the austrian government was engaged in equipping its army with a new rifle. it had sold 3500 of the old rifles to a london firm, and they were to be delivered on the firm's order at the vienna arsenal. captain boynton opened negotiations with the firm, bought the rifles and sent a ship to trieste. when the rifles were safely stowed in the vessel, the austrian authorities, not satisfied with the arrangement, ordered the ship to be detained. when the order was communicated to captain boynton, he replied that the officials might go hang, and directed the captain to steam away. fire was opened upon the defiant vessel and she was struck several times. the wonder is that she was

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sions that the entire story surfaced. it appears that soon after her father saw the creatures, all of the family was placed in a state of paralysis and several small gray beings entered the house and addressed her telepathically. they took her aboard their spaceship, an action requiring andreasson to pass through the closed door of her house and to float toward the disc-shaped craft. on board the ship she was run through a series of tests that included probes of her body with a needle and the removal of a small object from her head by a needle inserted into her nostril. she next had a visionary experience of traveling into another world where she met a being whom she, a christian, saw as god. the voice told her that she was a chosen one. the events aboard the ship closed with a final lectu

times they seemed to be lit up by a kind of yellow light. when mrs. f, her sister and the servant reached their home, only one single individual of the crowd, taller than the others and hideous in appearance, remained. he then disappeared also. prolonged apparitions are very rare, and possibly serve some deeper purpose, as in the case of a sailor who saw his father beside him on the bridge of his ship during a storm for two hours. the message of the apparition is, as a rule, simple and appears to be chosen intelligently in the form that may best suit the percipient s power of understanding. an apparition with empty eye sockets perceived by a sailor s wife, the sound of a terrific storm, or the image of a coffin conveys the intended message nearly as efficiently as the spoken words. the per

satru people also saw themselves as over against the odinists, who emphasize a single deity rather than the whole of the deities. celebrations were held to recognize the deities, such as yule (december 22) and the summer solstice. other holidays included march 28, ragnar s day, when the assembly remembered the sacking of paris in 845 by the viking ragnar lobrok. local groups called skeppslags, or ship s crews, consisted of 3 to 15 members. also, interest groups were formed as guilds to develop skills in activities from sewing to brewing. the assembly reached a crisis in 1987, when mcnallen felt unable to continue as the primary leader and disbanded the organization. in the meantime, a number of mostly small local norse groups had arisen, some falling victim to racial ideologies that aliena

g. roger bacon essays. oxford: clarendon press, 1914. bacoti a common name for the augurs and sorcerers of tonkin in indochina. they were often consulted by the friends of deceased persons for the purpose of holding communication with the dead. bacstrom, sigismond (ca. 1750.1805) physician who was also an alchemist and a rosicrucian. believed to be of scandinavian origin, he spent some time as a ship s surgeon. while visiting the island of mauritius, he met the mysterious occultist and alchemist comte louis de chazel, who initiated him into a societas rosae crucis. de chazel owned an extensive library of occult and mystical works and a well-equipped laboratory for astronomical observations and alchemical experiments. he informed bacstrom that he had succeeded in making the philosophers st

use differences in the intensity of infrasound, either increasing it or decreasing it. in the national enquirer, azhazha stated: an infrasonic sound wave can travel thousands of miles to find its victim in a calm sea. if the wave is gigantic enough, a crew can perish almost instantly. death will come from stopping of the heart or destruction of the cardiovascular system. in the resulting panic, a ship s crew might even abandon ship. azhazha claimed that the hull and masts of the ship would begin to vibrate in tune with the infrasound, cracking the ship and breaking it up. azhazha s theory was published in the soviet magazine science and life, and a similar theory was also put forward by soviet science writer i. boyetin. tests conducted in france have supported the theory that infrasound ca

ds. some west african peoples would bind a bird to the body of the deceased and then sacrifice it to carry the man s soul to the afterworld. the bagos also offered up a bird on the corpse of a deceased person for the same reason. the south sea islanders used to bury their dead in coffins shaped like the bird that was to bear away the spirits, while the natives of borneo represented tempon telon s ship of the dead as having the form of a bird. the native american tribes of the northwest had rattles shaped like ravens with a large face painted on the breast. the probable significance is that the raven was to carry the disembodied soul to the region of the sun. the flight of birds was also studied as part of the methods of divination in ornithomancy. bird voices paranormal messages supposedly

saucer contactee writings of riley hansard crabb. the address of the foundation is: p.o. box 6250, eureka, ca 95502. website: http//www.borderlands.com. sources: crabb, riley hansard. an attempt at cosmic fellowship. vista, calif: borderland science research foundation, 1964. layne, meade. the coming of the guardians. 5th ed. vista, calif: borderland sciences research foundation, 1964. the ether ship mystery. san diego: borderland sciences research associates, 1950. borderline magazine popular american occult magazine published from 1965 to 1966, edited by shelly lowenkopf and astrologer sydney omarr. publication ceased after vol. 2, no. 2 (february 1966. borderline science investigation group a now-defunct organization formed to investigate folklore, ufos, ghosts, and fairy incidents in

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n parapsychology. his articles on such subjects have been published in revue metapsychique. he also contributed papers to international conferences on parapsychology (utrecht, 1953; st. paul de vence, 1954. he was selected president of institute metapsychique in 1962. sources: pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. mary celeste the name of a ship found abandoned at sea december 5, 1872, and one of the most famous unsolved sea mysteries. her sails were set, she was sound and seaworthy, with plenty of food and water, but not a soul on board. some garments were hanging out to dry on a line. in the cabin was a slate with notes for the ship s log, with november 25 as the last date. the crew had left pipes, clothing, and even oilskin boots

ecember 5, 1872, and one of the most famous unsolved sea mysteries. her sails were set, she was sound and seaworthy, with plenty of food and water, but not a soul on board. some garments were hanging out to dry on a line. in the cabin was a slate with notes for the ship s log, with november 25 as the last date. the crew had left pipes, clothing, and even oilskin boots. for some unknown reason the ship had been hurriedly abandoned. the mary celeste was brought to gibraltar by the crew of the british brig dei gratia who claimed salvage. on march 25, 1873, the chief justice awarded 1,700 (about one-fifth of the total value) to the master and crew of the dei gratia. since then, the mystery of the mary celeste (sometimes inaccurately called marie celeste) has been widely discussed and many theo

, 1929. several years before the creation of sherlock holmes, author sir arthur conan doyle published j. habakuk jephson s statement in cornhill magazine (january 1884, a romantic fictional yarn with an air of verisimilitude. the story was republished in doyle s volume of short stories the captain of the polestar (london, 1890. sources: fay, charles eden. mary celeste: the odyssey of an abandoned ship. salem, mass: peabody museum, 1942. gould, rupert t. the stargazer talks. london, 1944. reprinted as more oddities and enigmas. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1973. keating, laurence j. the great mary celeste hoax: a famous sea mystery exposed. london: heath-cranton, 1929. stein, gordon. encyclopedia of hoaxes. detroit: gale research, 1993. maryland center for investigation of unconven

a human body and three dimensional. the materialisation of a plaster bust is not easier to understand than that of a lithographic drawing; and the formation of an image is not less extraordinary than that of a living human head, he said. daumer s speculation is strangely contrasted by glen hamilton s report (in psychic science) on the building and photographing of a three-dimensional ectoplasmic ship in the winnipeg circle. the entities john king and walter claimed responsibility for the experiment. coming through the mediums mary m. and x, they carried on a dialogue feigning that they were aboard king s pirate ship among a crew of ruffians. it was hinted that this playacting had a psychological purpose: the recovery of past memories and the creation of the thought image of a sailing ship

peg circle. the entities john king and walter claimed responsibility for the experiment. coming through the mediums mary m. and x, they carried on a dialogue feigning that they were aboard king s pirate ship among a crew of ruffians. it was hinted that this playacting had a psychological purpose: the recovery of past memories and the creation of the thought image of a sailing ship. eventually the ship was built, but because of some indecision in giving the signal to take a flash photograph, it came into port badly damaged. hamilton remarks: no matter how great we may conceive the unknown powers of the human organism to be, we cannot conceive of it giving rise to an objective mass showing purposive mechanistic construction such as that disclosed in the ship teleplasm of june 4th [1903. we a

[1903. we are forced to conclude that the supernormal personalities in this case (by some means as yet unknown to us) so manipulated or otherwise influenced the primary materialising substance after it had left the body of the medium, or was otherwise brought into its objective state, as to cause it to represent the idea which they, the unseen directors, had in view, namely the idea of a sailing ship (psychic science, vol. 11, no. 4, jan. 1933. the appearance of images instead of forms was said to have something to do with the available power. geley often observed strange, incomplete forms, imitations or simulacra of organs. his theory was as follows: the formations materialised in mediumistic seances arise from the same biological process as normal birth. they are neither more nor less m

phenomena. in proceedings of the conference on spontaneous phenomena (1957. meier, eduard albert billy (1937) one of the most famous of modern flying saucer contactees, billy meier emerged out of obscurity in 1975 when he claimed to have encountered people from the pleiadian star system. to verify his claims he presented some dramatic photos of the spaceship and eventually made some videos of the ship flying near his home in rural switzerland. meier was born on february 3, 1937, in bulach, switzerland. according to his story, he had seen a ufo as a child and subsequently heard a voice and saw mental pictures. these communications occurred daily and he learned to respond to them telepathically. in 1944, he met a humanoid named sfath and took his first ride in a saucer. sfath told him that h

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uzzing sound in her ears and looked up to see a smiling spaceman standing not far away. then a spaceship flew tow a rd her and landed, and she and a stepped into it. with a and another spaceman, b, grevler flew into space. they appro a c h e d what grevler describes as a positively huge mother sh i p, which tinier ships, similar to the one they we re aboard, we re entering. once inside the mother ship, grevler and her friends went to the temple, visited by returning crews to thank the creator for a safe voyage. subsequently, either in the mother ship or in the smaller scout craft (her account is vague on this detail, she visited venus and saw beautiful buildings and a kind of university. at the latter, students were taught universal knowledge and trained in extrasensory perception. they al

tiful, blond-haired ort h o n, a visitor from venus, who expressed concern about the human race s warlike ways (in later years adamski would tell confidants that his first contacts with extraterre s t r i a l s o c c u r red in his childhood, but he never said as much publicly) t h ree weeks later ort h o n returned in his scout craft over ad a m s k i s palomar ga rdens residence and allowed the ship to be photographed. the resulting pict u res would generate enormous controve r s y and, for many, virtually define the image of a flying saucer as a domed disc with a thre e- ball landing gear. a fifty-four-page account of adamski s early contacts was added to an already existing manuscript (on supposed space visitations throughout history) by irish occultist desmond leslie and published in

at the foot of her bed. he spoke to her, but all she could remember was that he had told her his name was ahab. further reading hartman, terry a, 1979. another abduction by extraterrestrials. mufon ufo journal 141 (november: 3 4. akon akon appeared to elizabeth klarer on april 6, 1956, when his spaceship landed in the drakensberg mountains of natal, south africa. she was flown to a waiting mother ship, where she met other friendly space people and learned that they came from the beautiful planet meton in the orbit of alpha centauri four light years away. the metonites, she learned, are vegetarians who live in a utopian society without conflict or disease. they are also a passionate people, and in due course, as the contacts continued, klarer and akon became lovers. she bore him a son, ayli

hat he had earlier visited venus and the moon. he asked if earthlings would soon visit the latter world, and when allingham replied yes, the martian acted concerned. he wanted to know if a war would soon erupt on earth. after this conversation, which occurred mostly by gestures, the martian reentered his craft and flew away, though not before allingham had photographed him (from the back) and his ship. the book asserted that a man named james duncan had witnessed the entire encounter. a year earlier george adamski had published his account of a meeting with the venusian orthon in the southern california desert. allingham s tale thrilled british saucerians, who now felt they had their own contact. waveney girvan, who had published the british edition of adamski and desmond leslie s book, wr

esently tell you nothing (james, 1958. see also: contactees further reading james, trevor [pseud. of trevor james constable, 1958. they live in the sky. los angeles: new age publishing company. andra-o-leeka and mondra-o-leeka chief frank buck standing horse, an ottawa indian from oklahoma, met andra-o-leeka and mondra-o-leeka onboard a spaceship that took him to several planets in july 1959. the ship, called vea-o-mus, landed around 10 p.m. on the evening of the twelfth. piloted by andra-o-leeka, the ship took off again, this time going to mars, then to venus. after a short stay there, a female pilot, mondra-oleeka, a venusian, relieved andra-o-leeka, and the ship went on to clarion, a planet hidden on the other side of the sun (clarion first ap- andra-o-leeka and mondra-o-leeka 21 pears

had passed. under hypnosis in may 1975, she recalled being taken into a spacecraft, where aliens told her that another woman would be placed inside her body. she saw the woman sitting on the other side of a table from her. stalnaker s head was placed inside some kind of mechanical device, and she passed out. when she revived, a spaceman told her she was now one of them. he escorted her out of the ship, and she returned to her car. subsequently, stalnaker claimed, she found that she had extraordinary psychic gifts that allowed her to read other people s minds and to practice paranormal healing. before long stalnaker was channeling the alien woman, who called herself antron. antron reported that she was from a star galaxy. she had come to prepare earthlings for a great cataclysm. we want to

eared and took gaynor into their spacecraft. besides the couple she knew, there were three others. one looked so close to being purely human that gaynor wondered if the young woman, who looked to be about nineteen years of age, was some kind of hybrid. gaynor noticed a picture on the wall of a male being like parz, only older. he was standing by a globe of a planet that clearly was not earth. the ship flew into space. half an hour later arna and parz told her that it had reached its destination, which turned out to be a kind of zoo full of bizarre creatures, all of them in twos. the animals were not in cages and had a great deal of space in which to wander. finally, the sights were too unsettling for gaynor, and her hosts permitted her to return to the ship. before they parted, however, ga

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get them bread, and bread in all the broadest sense, i swear; yet never could i eat in peace my share" martha to all my love, fidelity, he gave no thought, nor to my drudgery by night and day? mephistopheles not so; he thought of it most warmly as he ought. he said: from malta once i sailed away and ardently for wife and children did i pray. then heaven favoured us in gracious measure because our ship a turkish vessel caught which to the mighty sultan bore a treasure. then valour was rewarded as was fit, and i received moreover, as one ought, my own well-measured share of it" martha oh what? oh where? perhaps he buried it? mephistopheles who knows where the four winds have carried it? a pretty miss adopted him as her dear friend when he, in naples strange, was circulating; she gave him lov

th choruses the broomstick bears, and bears the stock, the pitchfork bears, and bears the buck. who cannot lift himself today, is a lost man for aye and aye. half-witch [below. i ve tripped behind so many a day, and now the others are far away! i ve no repose at home, and yet here too there s none for me to get. chorus of witches. salve puts a heart in every hag, good as a sail is any rag; a good ship every trough is too. you ll fly not less today you flew. both choruses and when we glide the peak around, then sweep along upon the ground; bedeck both far and wide the heather with all your witchdom s swarm together. they settle down. mephistopheles they crowd and shove, they rush and clatter, they hiss and whirl, they pull and chatter, they sputter, stink and burn and flare! a real witch-el

i as victim for the prince s bitter pain and for the adverse fate the greeks endured so long? conquered i am but whether captive i know not! for truly the immortal gods ambiguously ordained my fame and fate, attendants dubious for beauty s person; and on this very threshold now they stand in gloomy threatening presence at my side. for rarely did my husband cast a glance at me there in the hollow ship, nor spake he heartening word. as if he brooded mischief, facing me he sat. but now when drawing near eurotas deep-bayed shore the foremost ships scarce touched their beaks against the land in greeting, he spake as if by zeus himself inspired: here will my warriors in due order disembark; i ll muster them drawn up along the ocean-strand, but thou, proceed, go up eurotas holy stream along its

s are brought ashore. mephistopheles we ve proved ourselves as it behooves, pleased if our patron but approves. with but two ships we sailed away, with twenty we re in port today, the great things we have done- how great, that can be seen well from our freight. the free sea sets the spirit free. who ll stop to think when he s at sea! what helps is suddenness of grip. you catch a fish, you catch a ship, and when you re once the lord of three, you hook the fourth one easily; then is the fifth in sorry plight, you have the power and so the right. you ask not how but what it be. i know not how the sea is charted if war and trade and piracy are not triune and can t be parted. the three mighty comrades. he doesn t greet! he doesn t thank! as if we brought our lord what stank. see what a wry face

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d becomes the entire universe in your individual consciousness* 6 0 $7 in the science fiction television series star trek, the starship enterprise has an interesting recreational facility called the holodeck that appears in numerous episodes. the holodeck is essentially an empty room with a three-dimensional grid superimposed upon the walls. the grid provides a triaxial frame of reference for the ship s computer to project a threedimensional hologram. a crew member directs the ship s 43' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% computer to generate a hologram that portrays a specific narrative theme, into which one or more actual crew members can enter and interact on an apparently real time basis. the computer can be directed to modify or end the scenario at any time. a contemporary hologram is a two-dimensiona

of parameters, with the computer refreshing the bits from moment to moment. keeping in mind that analogies are only approximations in thought intended to enhance understanding, it is interesting to compare the holodeck with the qabalistic worldview. the qabalistic worldview describes the universe as a small face totality-dream in the mind of vast face. from that perspective, the space outside the ship would correspond to the negatively existent roots of the tree (i.e. ayn. the walls that form the holodeck would represent the circular leviathan of vast face surrounding the tzimtzum. the empty space of the holodeck would correspond to the vacuum within the tzimtzum. by the will of vast face through the action of small face, the kav( line of light) enters the tzimtzum through the point of the

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

guidance of the eye of the divine intelligence? and now, what shall i say concerning the nolan? perhaps it becomes me not to praise him since he is so near to me, as near, indeed, as i am to myself. yet no reasonable man would reprove me for so doing, since it is sometimes not only convenient but necessary to speak well of oneself. if in days of old tiphys was to be praised who invented the first ship and voyaged across the ocean with the argonauts. if in our times columbus receives honour. what then shall be said of him who has found a way to mount up to the sky? the nolan. has released the human spirit, and set knowledge at liberty. man's mind was suffocating in the close air of a narrow prison house whence only dimly, and, as it were, through chinks could he behold the far distant stars

has tranquillised the great ocean which peacefully receives into the ample ebb and flow of its vast bosom her dear thames, after it has taken its winding way past grassy banks in happiness and safety, secure from all alarms.2 in october, 1585, mauvissiere, the french ambassador, left england, having been recalled, and bruno went with him in his suite. the channel crossing was not fortunate as the ship was attacked and robbed by pirates.3 and when the travellers arrived in paris, it was clear that the seine would indeed soon again be full of blood. the situation was ugly in the extreme. guise had already mobilised his forces, with spanish assistance; in july, henri iii had been forced to conclude the treaty of nemours which annulled the liberties formerly enjoyed by the huguenots and showed

go in naples, informing him that he was writing a book for presentation to the pope and mentioning that he would like to have the opportunity of taking part in some literary exercise in rome, to show his powers and perhaps to gain some lecturef' document, pp. 69 ff; spampanato, vita di giordano bruno, pp. 456 ff; mclntyre, giordano bruno, pp. 66 ff. 338 chapter xix giordano bruno: return to italy ship.1 i think that the very madness of this plan indicates that bruno had never thought of himself as anti-catholic. the catholic religion "pleased him more than any other"2 but there was a great deal that was wrong with it. it needed reformation and it was the nolan's mission to assist in that reformation. the best centre from which to start on this would be rome itself where he would get into t

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

lent guides. only a few of the most spiritual among them retained their higher vision and communion with the divine hierarchs. these were then known as prophets, who acted as messengers between the invisible divine leaders and their respective peoples. but in time mankind desired to select its own leaders and demanded visible kings; at least we know that the israelites repudiated the divine ruler ship and demanded a king, and thus saul was appointed. then the dual office of ruler and priest, including temporal and spiritual leadership, was also divided, for no man sufficiently versed in worldly matters to fill the office of king efficiently, had been found holy enough to also undertake the spiritual leadership of his brethren, and vice versa. a true priest, able to lead his flock spiritual

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

man; but directly this faith declines, discontent intervenes, and it is in discontent that must be sought the origins of all world revolutions. why is this so? because the finite can only find succour in the infinite, the potent in the omnipotent, the limited in the unlimited, the mortal in the immortal, the child in the mother. cut away the greater, and the lesser is bereft of hope. it is like a ship drifting on a shoreless sea. she may be well built, well stocked, and bravely manned, yet her destiny is foreordained; having no port to put into, sooner or later she and her crew must sink beneath the waters and be lost for ever. when this doom encompasses mankind, as today it would seem to encompass it, man does not so secret wisdom of the qabalah page 7 much wring his hands in despair as d

elf into the intelligible world, and so seek to identify his essence with that of the higher substances; when in that condition, man does not recognize anything of the world of the senses. in that condition, man will find the evident bodies, in comparison with the intelligible substances, extremely insignificant, and see that the corporeal world is borne by the intelligible world, as if it were a ship on the sea, or a bird in the air. 18 in this state what we have called three-dimensional consciousness is rendered comatose, and with it a world which is both a reality and an illusion, a tangible thing and a mere reflection. thus, freed from things earthly, the soul of man expands from what qabalistically is a negative existence towards a positive existence. metaphorically speaking, first th

GAMBLE ELIZA BURT THE GOD IDEA OF THE ANCIENTS OR SEX IN RELIGION

s, or lily "it is, like many other very odd things, probably understood at the vatican, or the crypt of st. peter's"[20 [20] anacalypsis, book vii, ch. xi. of the lotus of the hindoos nimrod says "the lotus is a well-known allegory, of which the expanse calyx represents the ships of the gods floating on the surface of the water, and the erect flower arising out of it, the mast thereof. but as the ship was isis or magna mater, the female principle, and the mast in it the male deity, these parts of the flower came to have certain other significations, which seem to have been as well known at samosata as at benares"[21 [21] quoted in anacalypsis. in other words it was a phallic emblem and represented the creative processes throughout nature. susa, the name of the capital of the cushites, or a

rdingly we shall find that, on the one hand, venus is immediately connected with the symbolical egg; and, on the other hand, that she is identical with derceto and isis, and is declared to be that general receptacle out of which all the hero-gods were produced. now there can be little doubt in what sense we are to understand this expression, when we are told that the peculiar symbol of isis was a ship; and when we learn that the form assumed at the period of the deluge, by the indian isi or bhavani, who is clearly the same as the egyptian isis, was the ship argha, in which her consort siva floated securely on the surface of the ocean. venus, therefore, or the great mother, the parent of cupid from whom all mankind descended, must be the ark: consequently, the egg, with which she is connect

as riding on the back of a fish, and again as floating in a boat. the god of hindostan, like the classical dionysos, was enclosed in an ark and driven into the sea. according to the gothic traditions as recorded in the eddas, there once existed a beautiful world, which was destroyed by fire. another was created, which, with all its inhabitants save a giant and his three sons, who were saved in a ship, were destroyed by water. with this triad, which originally sprang from a mysterious cow, the new world began. this new world, which represents the present system, will in time be devoured by flames; but another earth will arise from the ocean--an earth far more beautiful than this, upon which all kinds of grain and delicious fruits will grow without cultivation. veda and vile will be there

and when to stay"[94 [94] faber, pagan idolatry, book i, ch. v. according to marsden, the new zealanders believe that three gods created the first man, and that the first woman was made from one of his ribs. among the otaheitans and various tribes of indians, the belief prevails that all created things have proceeded from a triplicated deity who was saved from the ravages of a flood in an ark or ship. the fact is observed that the theogonies and kosmogonies of all peoples have reference to a flood or to the renewal of life after the destruction of the world, and that the great father who is preserved, and who comes forth from an ark or ship with the seeds of a former world, represents the beginning of a new era. adam with his three sons, cain, abel, and seth, noah with his triad, shem, ha

hem like architraves. in ancient symbolism the circle was the emblem of eternity, or of the eternal female principle. mountains were also sacred to the gods. it has been said that a ring of mountains gave rise to these circular temples. faber assures us that a circular stone temple was called the circle of the world or the circle of the ark, that it represented at once the inclosure of the noetic ship; the egg from which creation was produced; the earth, and the zodiacal circle of the universe in which the sun performs its annual revolutions through the signs. stonehenge is said to be the temple of the water god noah, who, as we have seen, was first worshipped as half woman and half fish or serpent, but who finally came to be regarded as a man serpent (or fish) deity. on approaching stoneh

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

ovell(he was born on 8 march1824)it was by a matterofonlyeighteen months. it was, it seems,.notso much_-fromthenewworld17a disapproval 'of captain waite as ofemmaand her wayoflife. married or not,emmalovell remainedwithcaptainwaiteuntilhisdeath.my mother was with him in his voyages on many occasions and crossed the atlantic at least twelve times; on a day he had a half-share in a certain merchant ship and died in one which came to grief in mid-ocean. i heardofhis sleeping on deck becauseofitswater-logged state and succumbing to exposure in a bitter winter-tide. he was buried at sea, and i believe that the first mate brought thevesselsomehow to england, where it was sold, presumably forbreakingup.(sly,p. 14)emma, however, wasnotwithhim on his last voyage:'mysister's approaching birth being

hprofessional and amateur mediums. both 'real' phenomena and exposures of fraud were faithfully reported in the spiritualist journals and in the multitude of books devoted tothesubject, for the devotees were eager to present a respectablefaceto the world and to establish their 'science, philosophy and religion of continuous life, based upon the demonstrated fact of communication, by meansofmedium ship,withthosewholive.in the spirit world'2as an acceptable faith. indeed, it was largely through the propaganda of the journals that potential converts were gained: waite among them. before he.beganto attend seances waite immersed himselfinspiritualist literature, until 'there came a timewheni could almost say that i was acquainted sufficientlywiththe wholeoutputof spiritism, so far as england, a

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

in india the names and titles of the pieces suggest a military ideal. in egypt the tendency was76themagical masonrather to look upon the pieces as gods of various forces or natural powers. ancient chaturanga had four players in pairs; pieces and pawns arranged as below:greenyellowbpk c knbknp p p p pcpkp pkpcp ppppknbkn c kpbredblackthe pieces were: kingontheright, the elephant, then horse, then ship, and the pawns were infantry. the moves of the elephant with castle or howdah on its back, andoftheknight were unaltered for ages. castling was unknown. pawns moved one square forward only, but took laterally. dice were thrown to decide moves; the dice had four sides marked on opposite sides, with 4 and 3 or 5 and 2 making in each case 7. the use of dice was abolished by the brahmans. chatura

des marked on opposite sides, with 4 and 3 or 5 and 2 making in each case 7. the use of dice was abolished by the brahmans. chaturanga is referred to in valmiki's ramayana book 2, cap. 51. it is also mentioned in one of the sanskrit puranas where it is said that it was invented in the 'second age' by the wife of ravan, king of lanka (i.e. ceylon. the chaturanga elephant has become our castle, the ship=the bishop, thechess shatranjiandchaturanga 77horse=the knight, the 1st king=the king, and the 2nd king=the queen.theelephant and ship (castle and bishop) have exchanged places.theelephant probably became the castle from the howdah on its back.theship was also in some places a chariot. in the oldest chaturanga dice-throwing, if a 2 was thrown the player had to move the ship, if a 3 then the h

n of all asia, holding the jews in captivity, permitted certain of them to return to jerusalem for the express purposetoreestablishing the hebrew cultus which had been forcibly interfered with by nebuchadnezzar, 587b.c.after this return to jerusalem it was that ezra and nehamiah.circa450b.c.,edited and compiled the old testament of the hebrews, or, according to those who deny the mosaic author255 ship and the solomonicregime,it was then that theywrotethe pentateuch.thenewregimewas maintained until 320b.c.,when jerusalem was captured by ptolemy soter, who, however, did not destroy the foundations of the jewish religion; indeed his successor, ptolemy philadephus, caused the hebrew scriptures to be revised and translated into greek by seventy-two scholars, about 277b.c.;this has been known fo

eings, whose existence is now generally scoffed at, are suggested in numerous verses of the old and new testaments. in the old testament book of proverbs, chapter xxx, we have several notable quaternaries: they are 4 that never have enough; the grave, the barren woman, the dry earth and consuming fire. 4 things not to be understood; the ways of an eagle through the air, the way of a serpent, of a ship, and the way of a young man with a maid. 4 things the world cannot bear; the slave in power, the fool when content, an odious wife, and a bond-woman giving an heir to her mistress. 4 things little but exceeding wise; the ants, the rabbit, the locust, and the lizard you can seize with your hands. 4 things go stately along; a lion, a war-horse, a he-goat, and a king with his army. in the book o

outflow of chaldean lore over greece was during the first three centuries before christ.thegreek philosophers had good reason for adopting its notions: first, because their oracles had ceased to speak and they needed an alternative mode of divine guidance. secondly, they approved of the idea of a personal genius for each man, and so took kindly to the astrological ideal of a planetary guardian255 ship and influence; and lastly, as many greeks taught that the souls of great men became stars, so many stars must have a relation to men still living on earth; this idea especially was related to the stars of the via lactea or milky way.thepoet manitius has left some verses on this subject.theastrology of the early romans was an intricate and difficult study; its professors were called the mathem

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

shall be unto sidon' moses says 'rejoice zebulon in thy going out, and issachar in thy tents, they shall call the people unto the mountain, there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they shall suck of the abundance of the sea, of the treasures hid in the sands' this suits well the tropical, earthy and watery signs of (v\)and (f:l!273).the armorial bearings of zebulon are- purple, a ship.ofreuben=)jacob says 'reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power. unstable as water, thou shalt not excel, because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, then defiledst thou it; he went up to my couch' moses says-'letreuben live and not die, and let not his men be few' the armorial bearings of reuben are- red

GILBERT R A CHAOS OUT OF ORDER THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SWEDENBORGIAN RITE

ill. bro. f. g. irwin, s.g.s.w, who was also to be w.m. of emmanuel lodge which will shortly be transferred to bristol. the transfer duly took place, but irwin, while remaining enthusiastic about the rite, decided against becoming grand master. he explained his position in a letter to w. wynn westcott who had enquired about the rite: i have not intimated to col. moore my acceptance of the gd. mr.ship of the order nor do i think i will do so i should like to see it attached to one of the existing orders. tis a beautiful degree elucidating the craft degrees in a marvellous manner. my ritual extends over 212 pages of closely written sermon paper. you must please yourself about joining. i am to have the canadian warrant which will be called the premier temple of our english order. he then off

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

we will take a closer look to the theory of evolution from darwin's time to modern evolutionist propaganda, and we will discover the secret relationship of masonry to this greatest scientific error of all time. ddj materialism revisited a relief from the pagan civilization of mesopotamia. ddk -vthe theory of evolution revisited t is 1832. hms beagle is making its way across the vast atlantic. the ship looks like any ordinary cargo or passenger ship, but its journey is a journey of discovery, and one that will last many years. setting out from england, it will cross the entire ocean and reach the shores of south america. the beagle, a ship that had been of little known importance until that time, was setting out on a 5 year voyage. that which would ultimately make that ship famous was its p

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

ue. pleasure will be the only reason for marriage. lust will be the only reason for womanhood. falsehood will win out in disputes. being dry of water will be the only definition of land. praise worthiness will be measured by accumulated wealth. impropriety will be considered good conduct, and only feebleness will be the reason for unemployment. boldness and arrogance will be equivalent to scholar-ship. only those without wealth will show honesty. just a bath will amount to purification, and charity will be the only virtue. abduction will be marriage. simply to be well dressed will signify propriety. and any hard-toreach water will be deemed a pilgrimage site. the pretence of greatness will be the proof of it, and powerful men with many severe faults will rule over all the classes on earth

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM21

which is as life unto the dwellers in the watchtowers of the universe. i am the charioteer of the east; lord of the past and the future. i see by my own inward light; lord of resurrection who cometh forth from the dust, and my birth is from the house of death. oh, ye two divine hawks upon your pinnacles who keep watch over the universe, ye who company the bier to the house of rest, and pilot the ship of ra, ever advancing onwards to the heights of heaven. thou art lord of the shrine which standeth in the center of the earth. behold! he is in me, and i am in him. mine is the radiance wherein ptah floateth over the firmament. i travel upon high. i tread upon the firmament of nu. i raise a flashing flame with the lightening of mine eye, ever rushing on in the splendor of the daily glorified

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM7

g, which is as life unto the dwellers in the watchtowers of the universe. i am the charioteer of the east; lord of the past and the future. i see by my own inward light; lord of resurrection who cometh forth from the dust, and my birth is from the house of death. oh, ye two divine hawks upon your pinnacles who keep watch over the universe, ye accompany the bier to the house of rest, and pilot the ship of ra, ever advancing onwards to the heights of heaven. thou art lord of the shrine which standeth in the center of the earth. behold! he is me, and i am in him. mine is the radiance wherein ptah floateth over the firmament. i travel upon high. i tread upon the firmament of nu. i raise a flashing flame with the lightening of mine eye, ever rushing on in the splendor of the daily glorified ra

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

measurements. throughout the span of known history the invention of such equipment had remained beyond the capacities of scientists, but by the beginning of the eighteenth century, with rapidly increasing sea traffic, a mood of impatience and urgency had set in. in the words of an authority on the period, the search for longitude overshadowed the life of every man afloat, and the safety of every ship and cargo. accurate measurement seemed an impossible dream and discovering the longitude had become a stock phrase in the press like pigs might fly. 3 3 simon bethon and andrew robinson, the shape of the world: the mapping and discovery of the earth, guild publishing, london, 1991, p. 117. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 37 what was needed, above all else, was an instrument that would

ase in the press like pigs might fly. 3 3 simon bethon and andrew robinson, the shape of the world: the mapping and discovery of the earth, guild publishing, london, 1991, p. 117. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 37 what was needed, above all else, was an instrument that would keep the time (at the place of departure) with perfect accuracy during long sea journeys despite the motion of the ship and despite the adverse conditions of alternating heat and cold, wet and dry. such a watch, as isaac newton told the members of the british government s official board of longitude in 1714, hath not yet been made .4 indeed not. the timepieces of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were crude devices which typically lost or gained as much as a quarter of an hour per day. by contrast

fective marine chronometer could afford to lose or gain that much only over several years.5 it was not until the 1720s that the talented english clockmaker john harrison began work on the first of a series of designs which resulted in the manufacture of such a chronometer. his objective was to win the prize of 20,000 offered by the board of longitude for the inventor of any means of determining a ship s longitude within 30 nautical miles at the end of a six weeks voyage .6 a chronometer capable of fulfilling this condition would have to keep time to within three seconds per day. it took almost forty years, during which several prototypes were completed and tested, before harrison was able to meet these standards. finally, in 1761, his elegant chronometer no. 4 left britain on board hms dep

kalasasaya was built and that which it is today .1 what exactly is the obliquity of the ecliptic, and why does it make tiahuanaco 17,000 years old? according to the dictionary definition it is the angle between the plane of the earth s orbit and that of the celestial equator, equal to approximately 23 27 at present .2 to clarify this obscure astronomical notion, it helps to picture the earth as a ship, sailing on the vast ocean of the heavens. like all such vessels (be they planets or schooners, it rolls slightly with the swell that flows beneath it. picture yourself on board that ship as it rolls, standing on the deck, gazing out to sea. you rise up on the crest of a wave and your visible horizon increases; you fall back into a trough and it decreases. the process is regular, mathematical

ful blue planet lies slightly tilted away from the vertical in its orbit around the sun. from this it follows that the terrestrial equator, and hence the celestial equator (which is merely an imaginary extension of the earth s equator into the celestial sphere) must also lie at an angle to the orbital plane. that angle, at any one time, is the obliquity of the ecliptic. but because the earth is a ship that rolls, its obliquity changes in a cyclical manner over very long periods. during each cycle of 41,000 years the obliquity varies, with the precision and predictability of a swiss chronograph, between 22.1 and 1 tiahuanacu, ii, p. 89. 2 collins english dictionary, london, 1982, p. 1015. in addition, dr john mason of the british astronomical association defined obliquity of the ecliptic in

on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. and god said, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence. and behold i, even i, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven; and everything that is in the earth shall die. saving only noah and his family (whom he instructed to build a great survival ship 450 feet long x 75 feet wide x 45 feet high, and ordering the hebrew patriarch to gather together breeding pairs of every living creature so that they too might be saved, the lord then sent the flood: in the selfsame day entered noah and ham and japheth, the sons of noah, and noah s wife, and the wives of his sons with them, into the ark they and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle

e origin myths of a number of other tribes, the cosmic serpent yurlunggur (associated with the rainbow) is held responsible for the deluge.31 there are japanese traditions according to which the pacific islands of oceania were formed after the waters of a great deluge had receded.32 in oceania itself a myth of the native inhabitants of hawaii tells how the 26 reported in charles berlitz, the lost ship of noah, w. h. allen, london, 1989, p. 126. 27 world mythology, pp. 26-7. 28 ibid, p. 305. 29 folklore in the old testament, p. 81. 30 ibid. 31 world mythology, p. 280. 32 e. sykes, dictionary of non-classical mythology, london, 1961, p. 119. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 192 world was destroyed by a flood and later recreated by a god named tangaloa. the samoans believe that there w

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

after her untimely death at age 37. if there is a hidden cipher of mediumship showing up in the somewhat comic and sometimes tragic lore of contacteeism and trance channeling in modern times, what does it mean? the clue, i think, lies in the handful of common denominators in all the mythology that has emerged in the nearly 150 years since the fox sisters heard rapping sounds in the walls, and the ship of spiritualism was launched. in presenting certain ancient holy texts, willis barnstone notes that, to use a secret language for purposes of exegesis is a common linguistic practice, and is actually a characteristic embedded in virtually all religious texts. thus, perhaps, ciphers embedded in holy books not only does not begin with the book of the law and the dawn of the new aeon, but is as

ing the infamous mothman cases surrounding the silver bridge disaster and the subject of books by john keel and the late gray barker. in their first encounter on a deserted interstate stretch, cold had enigmatically told derenberger, i mean you no harm. i come from a country much less powerful than yours. derenberger was driving a ford econovan. cold, apparently, was driving an interstellar space ship, with his copilot, carl ardo. according to gray barker, they told him they came from the planet lanulus, 30 light years away. due to their skills at mental telepathy, they had no secrets between one another, and that was the reason for their peaceful existence. cold had a wife, kimi. during one contact cold was accompanied by a man named clinnel, from the planet cerenabus. as is usual with su

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

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GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

t have reached far westward to the rhine, and, if the ver-hilden-straet (p. 285) was named after her, into the netherlands, reminding us of the kinship between chatti and batavi; while the carolingian berhta pedauca and the biort of the edda would betoken a similar extension of berhta's worship. ave must pay regard to the almost universal rush of nations toward the west: even isis and her suevian ship we managed to trace as far as the ardennes. but, beside the deities, other portions of mythology must also have their say. hirains and himil, himel and heven are discussed on p. 698, the lapse of himil into gimill on p. 823; in hesse is the borderland between wights xxiv peeface. and elves, the one belonging to franconian, tlie other to saxon soil: the low saxon hiine is out of use in high ge

woodsprites (see suppl. the glosses yield a number of old words for the lat. larva. to begin with the earliest, the florent. 982' gives talamasga, and the later m.nethl. coll (diut. 2, 220) talmasge, kilian too has talmasche larva, tahnaschen larvam induere; it is the o.fr. talmacjic, tamascjie in roquefort, who explains it as masque, faux visage, and' talmache de vaisseau' is a figure fixed on a ship- other glosses ha,ye jlatjiej and scraz, scrat (p. 478. 3iummel is both larva and kobold (p. 506. anything uncanny and alarming, monstrum, prodigium, portentum, praestigium, acquires the ineaning of spectre too. again, getwds (p. 464, herbert 842. 12856* ein bose getwds, vom gelouben 530; the m.nethl. ghedwaes, hor. belg. 6, 249 agrees with the lith. dwase, spectre [v. the ls. verb dwetern ab

ilors if the jiyiglhig-cow by the church (meaning the bell or belfry) were uill alive 1 they answered yes, and he challenged one of them to hold out his hand, that he might see if the inhabitants had any strength left. they handed him a boat-bar made redhot, which he crushed together, saying there was no great strength there (faye p. 17. a story in odman's bahuslan 153-4 has similar variations: a ship's crew, driven out of their course to an out-of-the-way coast, see a fire burning at night, and go on shore. by the fire sits only one old man, who asks a sailor' whence be ye' from hisingen in safve pastorate' zen ye thorsby too' ay, that i do' wot ye the whereabout of ulfveberg' ay, it's many a time i've passed it, going from gotheborg to marstrand by way of hisingen^ stand the great stones

ble life. but siegfried is also wuotan (pp. 26n. 134, dietrich is wuotan^ other signs that the end of the world is at hand: when the swan drops the ring from his bill (p. 429; when the giant's rib, from which a drop falls once a year, has all trickled away (deut. sag. no. 140; when the tongue of the balance stands in (ib. 294; when, says a swed. song, the stone in the green valley falls; when the ship made of men's 7iails is built (p. 814* p. 822-3; even the particles ever, once, one day, olim, apply to both states of being. heroes inside hills. 961 future. in the castle-cellar of salurn, in the silesian zobtenberg (p. 937, charles is wuotan (p. 394; and wuotan, after muspilli, rises on the world anew, a god alive and young again. once before, osinn had departed out of the land to go'sheim

d about any league with the devil. nay, these night-ivomen, shining mothers, dominae nocturnae, bonnes dames (p. 287-8, in hincmar' lamiae sive geniciales feminae' were originally diemonic elvish beings, who appeared in woman's shape and did men kindnesses; holda, ahundia, to whom still a third part of the whole world is subject (pp. 283-8, lead the ring of dancers, and on the goddess's itinerant ship dances were trod (p. 260. it is to such dancing at heathen worship, to the aivj elf-dance (p. 470, to the hopping of will-o'-ivisps (p. 916^ that i trace primarily the idea of witches' dances; though festive dances at heathen maymeetings can be reckoned in with the rest. to christian zealots all dancing appeared sinful and heathenish, and sure enough it often was derived from pagan rites, lik

stariae. so in ratherius p. 626' contra eos qui dicunt quod homo 'inalus vel diaholus^ tempestatem faciat, lapides grandinum spergat, agros devastet, fulgura mittat, etc. those magicians in burchard are called immissores tempestatum, sup. c, 10, 8; p. 194^ yet in the north, thorgersr and irpa, who stir up storm and tempest, are women (p. 637, and the saltgrinders fenja and menja giantesses; their ship is like the mistship of the clouds. how magicians set about their weathermaking, is nowhere specified. in much later authorities we find them using a tub or a pitcher, p. 593. in ls. 2, 314 master irreganc says (g. abent. 3, 90: und kgem ein wann (tub) in min hant, der hagel slileg (hail would beat) iiber allez lant. in the apollon. von tyrland (9183. 10970. 11010 seq) are mentioned pitchers

. when it is full, hang it on a tree: a wind springs up directly, that drives all rain away, and keeps the weather fine. out of a small piece of cloud a witch made a deal of bad weather (ars buchsgau p. 103. a violent thunderstorm lasted so long, that a huntsman on the highway loaded his gun with a consecrated bullet, and shot it off into the middle of the blackest cloud; out of it (as out of the ship, p. 638) a naked female fell dead to the ground, and the storm blew over in a moment (mone's anz. 4, 309. in carinthia the people slioot at storm-clouds, to scare away the evil spirits that hold counsel in them. the parson being credited with power to charm the weather, the women bring apronfuls of hailstones into his house' there, that^s his rightful tithe of the weather, as he did not see g

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does not even wake. a german nursery-tale (1, 307) has something very similar; in another one, millstones are dropt on a giant in the well, and he calls out, drive those hens away, they scratch the sand up there, and make the grains come in my eyes (2, 29- 1 a giantess (g$"gr) named hyrrokin (igne fumata) is mentioned in the edda, sn. 66 on occasion of baldr s funeral: nothing could set the ship hringhorn, in which the body lay, in motion; they sent to the giants, and hyrrokin came riding on a wolf, with a snake for bridle and rein; she no sooner stept up to the vessel and touched it with her foot, than fire darted out of the beams, and the firm land quaked. i also find in a norwegian folk-tale (faye, p. 14, that a giantess (djurre) by merely kicking the shore with her foot threw a s

e those of the sons of elohim who had mingled with the children of men; and noah s box(/a/rtaro) is like bergelmi s luftr. but the epic touches, such as the landing on the mountain, the outflying dove, the sacrifice and rainbow, would surely not have been left out, had there been any borrowing here. in the assyrian tradition, 1 kronos warns sisuthros of the coming downpour, who thereupon builds a ship, and embarks with men and beasts. three days after the rain has ceased, birds are sent out, twice they come flying back, the second time with slime on their feet, and the third time they staid away. sisuthros got out first with his wife and daughter and pilot, they prayed, sacrificed, and suddenly disappeared. when the rest came to land, a voice sounded in the air, saying the devout sisuthros

ght it in his hand and laid it in a vessel, but the fish began to grow, and demanded wider quarters. manus threw it into a large lake, but the fish grew on, and wished to be taken to ganga the bride of the sea. before long he had not room to stir even there, and manus was obliged to carry him to the sea; but when launched in the sea, he foretold the coming of a fearful flood, manus was to build a ship and go on board it with the seven sages, and preserve the seeds of all things, then he would shew himself to them horned. manus did as he was commanded, and sailed in the ship; the monster fish appeared, had the ship fastened to his horn by a rope, and towed it through the sea for many years, till they reached the summit of the himavdn, there he bade them moor the ship, and the spot to which

preserve the seeds of all things, then he would shew himself to them horned. manus did as he was commanded, and sailed in the ship; the monster fish appeared, had the ship fastened to his horn by a rope, and towed it through the sea for many years, till they reached the summit of the himavdn, there he bade them moor the ship, and the spot to which it was tied still bears the name of naubandhanam (ship-binding. then spake the fish: i am brahma, lord of created things, a higher than i there is not, in the shape of a fish have i delivered you; 1 ckt9ea from cict9ea is buttmann s acute suggestion; but he goes farther, taking this sisythes or sisuthros to be sesothris, sothis, seth; and noah to be dionysos, and a symbol of water. 2 buttm. p. 45 seq, who connects it with okeanos and ogenos. 3 it

and as he had spoken, so it was done. in the bhagavatam, satydvratas (supra, p. 249) takes the place of manus, vishnus that of brahma, and the facts are embellished with philosophy. the indian myth then, like the teutonic, makes the deluge precede the real creation, whereas in the mosaic account adam lives long before noah, and the flood is not followed by a new creation. the seven rishis in the ship, as bopp remarks, are of divine rather than human nature, sons of brahma, and of an older birth than the inferior gods created by manus or their enemies the asuris (elsewhere daityas and danavas= titans, giants. but it is a great point gained for us, that manus (after whom manushyas, homo, is named) comes in as a creator; so that in our german mannus (whence manna and manniskja, homo) we reco

child he took to the king, who had it reared as deluge. 581 the sole survivor of the sunken city. 1 conf. the story of dold at the end of ch. xxxii. another and older narrative, found even in the british triads, comes much nearer to those given above: when the lake of llion overflowed and submerged all britain, the people were all drowned save dwyvan and dwyvach, who escaped in a naked (sailless) ship, and afterwards repeopled the land. this ship is also named that of nevydd nav neivion, and had on board a male and female of every creature; again it is told, that the oxen of hu gadarn dragged the avanc (beaver) ashore out of the llion lake, and it has never broken out since.3 of still narrower limits are our german tales, as that of the dwarf seeking a lodging at ralligen on l. thun (no. 4

which came creeping out and lodged with the ruffian brood. but the eim rose higher and higher, and swept like a white cloud through the air; said the hunters in the woods: what is this murky weather passing over us? and the herdsmen: what white swan is flying in the sky? all night he hung among the stars, at morn the reapers spied him, how that he was sinking, and the white swan became as a white ship, and the ship as a dark drifting cloud. and out of the waters came a voice: get thee hence with thy harvest, i come to dwell with thee/ then they bade him welcome, if he would bedew their fields and meadows, and he sank down and stretched himself in his new couch. they set his bed in order, built dikes, and planted young trees around to cool his face. their fields he made fertile, their meado

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each bank of the river, lay the houses of the capital down below the people walked, lilliputians in size. we stood for a considerable time, and indeed i could have remained much longer drinking in the view, but the guide suggested that we leave. we did so and visited the bazaars and other plates of interest including taverns where we enjoyed native cigars and wine. as we made our way back to the ship my guide produced a little metal crucifix and some papers which he begged me to buy. he informed me that the papers were the manuscripts of a system of ceremonial magic, the secret grimoire of turiel. these were the original dated 1518. written in latin, and a copy written in english, a translation from the original. the original copy was in fragments, almost worn away, but the copy was intac

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minutely particularized be mistaken. it is either true, or the whole work is indeed a scandalous fabrication. fortunately, in p. 179, vol. vii. ofthezoist,we have a caseinpoint, thus related by mr w. hazard, of ann bateman, who, sitting in a mesmeric state, at bristol, thus described the condition of a vessel, then (as afterwards proved by the captain) to the westward of madeira.'ab, there's the ship; but oh! how dark. how she tumbles.ishallbesick.'at the same time she was in that kind of unsteady motion so usual to persons unaccustomed to the sea 'how the wind roars, and the sea so high and black: it's dreadful' do you see captain c 'yes, there he is on a high deck, calling to the men; now there's an irishwoman at the cabin door asking for medicine; others saying they would all be drowne

her out isill''i am aware that 1 am here as an atmospheric spirit and the personification of my body. i know not whether the knowledge is the same but i believe here myself that i am telling you the truth. 1amaware that there is no law other than you mention by which you can discover its accuracybuti feel the same here as i should in the body, and i assure you on the honour of a soldier that the ship i have mentioned is an english one and. now lying in balaclavabay and that, iflife remains in me 'till that time, 1shall. sail in it to malta, from thence to marseilles, then tomadrid-thecourt-andfrom thence to london, and 1 think if you feel any doubt as to whom i am, the best way to satisfy yourself istoask your guardianspirit-iam aware you place great dependence in him, and i am sure you w

cers out here almost in the same condition as the men, and they do not desire better''itis the 27th jan. with me nothing of importance has happened to my knowledge. i have been ready to start for 3 days. i came there from the hospital' where were you wounded 'a minnie rifle ball in the right side' have you been promoted?'nobut i was given to understand that i might expect it in a short time' what ship do you intend to come home in?'thehymelin' is she english or french 'english' do you know the captain's name?126therosicrucianseerthis is 28 nov [18]55&we cannot by any possibility receive news from the crimea for 10 or 12 days cannot you give me the name of some officer killed or wounded within two or threedays?'general hamilton was wounded on 25 (hermilan) one of the family of hamilton will

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ues. inthis part of the city it is useless to expect to be guided by either house numbers, or names of streets. thelocation of any desired place is indicated by its proximity to some other more conspicuous building such as amosque, bath, or european shop; for the rest, one has to trust to allah and his prophet. it was with the greatest difficulty, therefore, that we finally discovered the british ship-chandler's store, atthe rear of which we were to find the place of our destination. our hotel guide was as ignorant of thedervishes' abode as we were ourselves; but at last a small greek, in all the simplicity of primitive undress,consented for a modest copper backsheesh to lead us to the dancers. when we arrived we were shown into a vast and gloomy hall that looked like a deserted stable. it

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nder the lash in the cane and rice fields. the guilt of this great crime rests on the christian church "in the name of the most holy trinity" the spanish government (roman catholic) concluded more than ten treaties authorizing the sale of five hundred thousand human beings; in 1562 sir john hawkins sailed on his diabolical errand of buying slaves in africa and selling them in the west indies in a ship which bore the sacred name of jesus; while elizabeth, the protestant queen, rewarded him for his success in this first adventure of englishmen in that inhuman traffic by allowing him to wear as his crest "a demi-moor in his proper color, bound with a cord, or, in other words, a manacled negro slave" q. i have heard you say that the identity of our physical origin is proved by science, that of

h, unless the divine duad is assimilated by, and reflected in, some consciousness. neither atma nor buddhi are ever reached by karma, because the former is the highest aspect of karma, its working agent of itself in one aspect, and the other is unconscious on this plane. this consciousness or mind is, 3. manas, the derivation or product in a reflected form of ahankara "the conception of i" or ego-ship. it is, therefore, when inseparably united to the first two, called the spiritual ego, and taijasi (the radiant. this is the real individuality, or the divine man. it is this ego which-having originally incarnated in the senseless human form animated by, but unconscious (since it had no consciousness) of, the presence in itself of the dual monad-made of that human-like form a real man. mahat

of light" the highest gods, answering to the roman catholic archangels. the divine intelligences charged with the supervision of kosmos. double the same as the astral body or "doppelg nger" ecstasis (gr) a psycho-spiritual state; a physical trance which induces clairvoyance, and a beatific state which brings on visions. ego (lat "i; the consciousness in man of the "i am i" or the feeling of i-am-ship. esoteric philosophy teaches the existence of two egos in man, the mortal or personal, and the higher, the divine or impersonal, calling the former "personality" and the latter "individuality" egoity (from the word ego. egoity means "individuality"-never "personality" as it is the opposite of egoism or "selfishness" the characteristic par excellence of the latter. eidolon (gr) the same as tha

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ld whenever another earthquake shall heave their monstrous stone city again to the sun and air. johansen's voyage had begun just as he told it to the vice-admiralty. the emma, in ballast, had cleared auckland on february 20th, and had felt the full force of that earthquake-born tempest which must have heaved up from the sea-bottom the horrors that filled men's dreams. once more under control, the ship was making good progress when held up by the alert on march 22nd, and i could feel the mate's regret as he wrote of her bombardment and sinking. of the swarthy cult-fiends on the alert he speaks with significant horror. there was some peculiarly abominable quality about them which made their destruction seem almost a duty, and johansen shews ingenuous wonder at the charge of ruthlessness brou

hawkins thought he heard a nasty, slopping sound down there. everyone listened, and everyone was listening still when it lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness. poor johansen's handwriting almost gave out when he wrote of this. of the six men who never reached the ship, he thinks two perished of pure fright in that accursed instant. the thing cannot be described- there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. a mountain walked or stumbled. god! what wonder that across the earth a great architect went mad, and poor wilcox raved with fever in that telepathic instant

or the shore; and it was the work of only a few moments of feverish rushing up and down between wheel and engines to get the alert under way. slowly, amidst the distorted horrors of that indescribable scene, she began to churn the lethal waters; whilst on the masonry of that charnel shore that was not of earth the titan thing from the stars slavered and gibbered like polypheme cursing the fleeing ship of odysseus. then, bolder than the storied cyclops, great cthulhu slid greasily into the water and began to pursue with vast wave-raising strokes of cosmic potency. briden looked back and went mad, laughing shrilly as he kept on laughing at intervals till death found him one night in the cabin whilst johansen was wandering deliriously. but johansen had not given out yet. knowing that the thin

above the unclean froth like the stern of a daemon galleon. the awful squid-head with writhing feelers came nearly up to the bowsprit of the sturdy yacht, but johansen drove on relentlessly. there was a bursting as of an exploding bladder, a slushy nastiness as of a cloven sunfish, a stench as of a thousand opened graves, and a sound that the chronicler could not put on paper. for an instant the ship was befouled by an acrid and blinding green cloud, and then there was only a venomous seething astern; where- god in heaven- the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn was nebulously recombining in its hateful original form, whilst its distance widened every second as the alert gained impetus from its mounting steam. that was all. after that johansen only brooded over the idol in the

to the southward the neighbourhood became better, flowering at last into a marvellous group of early mansions; but still the little ancient lanes led off down the precipice to the west, spectral in their many-gabled archaism and dipping to a riot of iridescent decay where the wicked old water-front recalls its proud east india days amidst polyglot vice and squalor, rotting wharves, and blear-eyed ship-chandleries, with such surviving alley names as packet, bullion, gold, silver, coin, doubloon, sovereign, guilder, dollar, dime, and cent. sometimes, as he grew taller and more adventurous, young ward would venture down into this maelstrom of tottering houses, broken transoms, tumbling steps, twisted balustrades, swarthy faces, and nameless odours; winding from south main to south water, sear

ch any ordinary courtship of his would be received, hence he looked about for some likely candidate upon whose parents he might exert a suitable pressure. such candidates, he found, were not at all easy to discover; since he had very particular requirements in the way of beauty, accomplishments, and social security. at length his survey narrowed down to the household of one of his best and oldest ship-captains, a widower of high birth and unblemished standing named dutee tillinghast, whose only daughter eliza seemed dowered with every conceivable advantage save prospects as an heiress. capt. tillinghast was completely under the domination of curwen; and consented, after a terrible interview in his cupolaed house on power's lane hill, to sanction the blasphemous alliance. eliza tillinghast

ommunity by displaying an extreme graciousness and consideration. the new house in olney court was now wholly free from disturbing manifestations, and although curwen was much absent at the pawtuxet farm which his wife never visited, he seemed more like a normal citizen than at any other time in his long years of residence. only one person remained in open enmity with him, this being the youthful ship's officer whose engagement to eliza tillinghast had been so abruptly broken. ezra weeden had frankly vowed vengeance; and though of a quiet and ordinarily mild disposition, was now gaining a hate-bred, dogged purpose which boded no good to the usurping husband. on the seventh of may, 1765, curwen's only child ann was born; and was christened by the rev. john graves of king's church, of which

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ugh it was- so little noticed by the world at large. as the newspapers told, we sailed from boston harbor on september 2nd, 1930, taking a leisurely course down the coast and through the panama canal, and stopping at samoa and hobart, tasmania, at which latter place we took on final supplies. none of our exploring party had ever been in the polar regions before, hence we all relied greatly on our ship captains- j. b. douglas, commanding the brig arkham, and serving as commander of the sea party, and georg thorflnnssen, commanding the barque miskatonic- both veteran whalers in antarctic waters. as we left the inhabited world behind, the sun sank lower and lower in the north, and stayed longer and longer above the horizon each day. at about 62 south latitude we sighted our first icebergs- ta

all our drilling apparatus, dogs, sledges, tents, provisions, gasoline tanks, experimental ice-melting outfit, cameras, both ordinary and aerial, aeroplane parts, and other accessories, including three small portable wireless outfits- besides those in the planes- capable of communicating with the arkham s large outfit from any part of the antarctic continent that we would be likely to visit. the ship s outfit, communicating with the outside world, was to convey press reports to the arkham advertiser's powerful wireless station on kingsport head, massachusetts. we hoped to complete our work during a single antarctic summer; but if this proved impossible, we would winter on the arkham, sending the miskatonic north before the freezing of the ice for another summer s supplies. i need not repe

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i finally found myself adrift and free, i had but little idea of my surroundings. never a competent navigator, i could only guess vaguely by the sun and stars that i was somewhat south of the equator. of the longitude i knew nothing, and no island or coastline was in sight. the weather kept fair, and for uncounted days i drifted aimlessly beneath the scorching sun; waiting either for some passing ship, or to be cast on the shores of some habitable land. but neither ship nor land appeared, and i began to despair in my solitude upon the heaving vastness of unbroken blue. the change happened whilst i slept. its details i shall never know; for my slumber, though troubled and dream-infested, was continuous. when at last i awakened, it was to discover myself half sucked into a slimy expanse of h

mber little. i believe i sang a great deal, and laughed oddly when i was unable to sing. i have indistinct recollections of a great storm some time after i reached the boat; at any rate, i knew that i heard peals of thunder and other tones which nature utters only in her wildest moods. when i came out of the shadows i was in a san francisco hospital; brought thither by the captain of the american ship which had picked up my boat in mid-ocean. in my delirium i had said much, but found that my words had been given scant attention. of any land upheaval in the pacific, my rescuers knew nothing; nor did i deem it necessary to insist upon a thing which i knew they could not believe. once i sought out a celebrated ethnologist, and amused him with peculiar questions regarding the ancient philistin

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

world whenever another earthquake shall heave their monstrous stone city again to the sun and air. johansen's voyage had begun just as he told it to the viceadmiralty. the emma, in ballast, had cleared auckland on 20 february, and had felt the full force of that earthquake-born tempest which must have heaved up from the sea-bottom the horrors that filled men's dreams. once more under control, the ship was making good progress when held up by the alert on 22 march, and i could feel the mate's regret as he wrote of her bombardment and sinking. of the swarthy cult-fiends on the alert he speaks with significant horror. there was some peculiarly abominable quality about them which made their destruction seem almost a duty, and johansen shows ingenuous wonder at the charge of ruthlessness brough

hawkins thought he heard a nasty, slopping sound down there. everyone listened, and everyone was listening still when it lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness. poor johansen's handwriting almost gave out when he wrote of this. of the six men who never reached the ship, he thinks two perished of pure fright in that accursed instant. the thing cannot be described- there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. a mountain walked or stumbled. god! what wonder that across the earth a great architect went mad, and poor wilcox raved with fever in that telepathic instant

for the shore; and it was the work of only a few moments of feverish rushing up and down between wheels and engines to get the alert under way. slowly, amidst the distorted horrors of the indescribable scene, she began to chum the lethal waters; whilst on the masonry of that charnel shore that was not of earth the titan thing from the stars slavered and gibbered like polypheme cursing the fleeing ship of odysseus. then, bolder than the storied cyclops, great cthulhu slid greasily into the water and began to pursue with vast wave-raising strokes of cosmic potency. briden looked back and went mad, laughing at intervals till death found him one night in the cabin whilst johansen was wandering deliriously. but johansen had not given out yet. knowing that the thing could surely overtake the ale

e above the unclean froth like the stern of a demon galleon. the awful squid-head with writhing feelers came nearly up to the bowsprit of the sturdy yacht, but johansen drove on relentlessly. there was a bursting as of an exploding bladder, a slushy nastiness as of a cloven sunfish, a stench as of a thousand opened graves, and a sound that the chronicler would not put on paper. for an instant the ship was befouled by an acrid and blinding green cloud, and then there was only a venomous seething astern; where- god in heaven- the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn was nebulously recombining in its hateful original form, whilst its distance widened every second as the alert gained impetus from its mounting steam. that was all. after that johansen only brooded over the idol in the

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

women-folks. people allowed maybe old captain obed traded for it in some heathen port, especially since he always ordered stacks of glass beads and trinkets such as seafaring men used to get for native trade. others thought and still think he'd found an old pirate cache out on devil reef. but here's a funny thing. the old captain's been dead these sixty years, and there's ain't been a good-sized ship out of the place since the civil war; but just the same the marshes still keep on buying a few of those native trade things- mostly glass and rubber gewgaws, they tell me. maybe the innsmouth folks like 'em to look at themselves- gawd knows they've gotten to be about as bad as south sea cannibals and guinea savages "that plague of '46 must have taken off the best blood in the place. anyway, t

ys. prob'ly them was the old ones' signs- folks all wiped aout no trace o' no gold-like things an' none the nearby kanakys ud breathe a word abaout the matter. wouldn't even admit they'd ever ben any people on that island "that naturally hit obed pretty hard, seein' as his normal trade was doin' very poor. it hit the whole of innsmouth, too, because in seafarint days what profited the master of a ship gen'lly profited the crew proportionate. most of the folks araound the taown took the hard times kind o' sheep-like an' resigned, but they was in bad shape because the fishin' was peterin' aout an' the mills wan't doin' none too well "then's the time obed he begun a-cursin' at the folks fer bein' dull sheep an' prayin' to a christian heaven as didn't help 'em none. he told 'em he'd knowed o'

rink back, for he began to cackle evilly "heh, heh, heh, heh! beginni' to see hey? mebbe ye'd like to a ben me in them days, when i seed things at night aout to sea from the cupalo top o' my haouse. oh, i kin tell ye' little pitchers hev big ears, an' i wa'n't missin' nothin' o' what was gossiped abaout cap'n obed an' the folks aout to the reef! heh, heh, heh! haow abaout the night i took my pa's ship's glass up to the cupalo an' seed the reef a-bristlin' thick with shapes that dove off quick soon's the moon riz? obed an' the folks was in a dory, but them shapes dove off the far side into the deep water an' never come up. haow'd ye like to be a little shaver alone up in a cupola a-watchin' shapes as wa'n't human shapes .heh. heh, heh, heh" the old man was getting hysterical, and i began to

kin' sign language with their hands. them as had reel hands "wal, sir, that was the time obed begun to git on his feet agin. folks see his three darters a-wearin' gold-like things as nobody'd never see on 'em afore, an' smoke stared comin' aout o' the refin'ry chimbly. other folks was prosp'rin, too- fish begun to swarm into the harbour fit to kill' an' heaven knows what sized cargoes we begun to ship aout to newb'ry-port, arkham, an' boston. t'was then obed got the ol' branch raitrud put through. some kingsport fishermen heerd abaout the ketch an' come up in sloops, but they was all lost. nobody never see 'em agin. an' jest then our folk. organised the esoteric order 0' dagon, an' bought masoic hall offen calvary commandery for it. heh, heh, heh! mart eliot was a mason an' agin the sellin

controlling my muscles, and realising afresh- how plainly visible i was, i resumed my brisker and feignedly shambling pace; though keeping my eyes on that hellish and ominous reef as long as the opening of south street gave me a seaward view. what the whole proceeding meant, i could not imagine; unless it involved some strange rite connected with devil reef, or unless some party had landed from a ship on that sinister rock. i now bent to the left around the ruinous green; still gazing toward the ocean as it blazed in the spectral summer moonlight, and watching the cryptical flashing of those nameless, unexplainable beacons. it was then that the most horrible impression of all was borne in upon me- the impression which destroyed my last vestige of self-control and sent me running franticall

last moment i decided i had better slacken my trot and make the crossing as before in the shambling gait of an average innsmouth native. when the view of the water again opened out- this time on my right- i was half-determined not to look at it at all. i could not however, resist; but cast a sidelong glance as i carefully and imitatively shambled toward the protecting shadows ahead. there was no ship visible, as i had half-expected there would be. instead, the first thing which caught my eye was a small rowboat pulling in toward the abandoned wharves and laden with some bulky, tarpaulin-covered object. its rowers, though distantly and indistinctly seen, were of an especially repellent aspect. several swimmers were still discernible; while on the far black reef i could see a faint, steady

those nameless swimmers i had seen. counting the parties so far glimpsed, as well as those presumably covering other roads, the number of my pursuers must be strangely large for a town as depopulated as innsmonth. whence could come the dense personnel of such a column as i now beheld? did those ancient, unplumbed warrens teem with a twisted, uncatalogued, and unsuspected life? or had some unseen ship indeed landed a legion of unknown outsiders on that hellish reef? who were they? why were they here? and if such a column of them was scouring the ipswich road, would the patrols on the other roads be likewise augmented? i had entered the brush-grown cut and was struggling along at a very slow pace when that damnable fishy odour again waxed dominant. had the wind suddenly changed eastward, so

HP LOVECRAFT THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN

ble man who has no account at the bank, and who pays for his few necessities at the village store with spanish gold and silver minted two centuries ago. messrs. ricci, czanek, and silva selected the night of april 11th for their call. mr. ricci and mr. silva were to interview the poor old gentleman, whilst mr. czanek waited for them and their presumable metallic burden with a covered motor-car in ship street, by the gate in the tall rear wall of their host s grounds. desire to avoid needless explanations in case of unexpected police intrusions prompted these plans for a quiet and unostentatious departure. as prearranged, the three adventurers started out separately in order to prevent any evil-minded suspicions afterward. messrs. ricci and silva met in water street by the old man s front g

ms of a weak and exceptionally venerable man can be easily muffled. so they moved up to the one lighted window and heard the terrible old man talking childishly to his bottles with pendulums. then they donned masks and knocked politely at the weather-stained oaken door. waiting seemed very long to mr. czanek as he fidgeted restlessly in the covered motor-car by the terrible old man s back gate in ship street. he was more than ordinarily tender-hearted, and he did not like the hideous screams he had heard in the ancient house just after the hour appointed for the deed. had he not told his colleagues to be as gentle as possible with the pathetic old sea-captain? very nervously he watched that narrow oaken gate in the high and ivy-clad stone wall. frequently he consulted his watch, and wonder

ere yellow. little things make considerable excitement in little towns, which is the reason that kingsport people talked all that spring and summer about the three unidentifiable bodies, horribly slashed as with many cutlasses, and horribly mangled as by the tread of many cruel boot-heels, which the tide washed in. and some people even spoke of things as trivial as the deserted motor-car found in ship street, or certain especially inhuman cries, probably of a stray animal or migratory bird, heard in the night by wakeful citizens. but in this idle village gossip the terrible old man took no interest at all. he was by nature reserved, and when one is aged and feeble, one s reserve is doubly strong. besides, so ancient a sea-captain must have witnessed scores of things much more stirring in t

HP LOVECRAFT THE WHITE SHIP

manton, but what was it? those scars- was it like that" and i was too dazed to exult when he whispered back a thing i had half expected "no- it wasn't that way at all. it was everywhere- a gelatin- a slime yet it had shapes, a thousand shapes of horror beyond all memory. there were eyes- and a blemish. it was the pit- the maelstrom- the ultimate abomination. carter, it was the unnamablyethe white ship by h.p. lovecraft written november 1919 published november 1919 in the united amateur, vol. 19, no. 2, p. 30-33. i am basil elton, keeper of the north point light that my father and grandfather kept before me. far from the shore stands the gray lighthouse, above sunken slimy rocks that are seen when the tide is low, but unseen when the tide is high. past that beacon for a century have swept t

the ways beyond; and sometimes at night the deep waters of the sea have grown clear and phosphorescent, to grant me glimpses of the ways beneath. and these glimpses have been as often of the ways that were and the ways that might be, as of the ways that are; for ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of time. out of the south it was that the white ship used to come when the moon was full and high in the heavens. out of the south it would glide very smoothly and silently over the sea. and whether the sea was rough or calm, and whether the wind was friendly or adverse, it would always glide smoothly and silently, its sails distant and its long strange tiers of oars moving rhythmically. one night i espied upon the deck a man, bearded and robed

nd silently, its sails distant and its long strange tiers of oars moving rhythmically. one night i espied upon the deck a man, bearded and robed, and he seemed to beckon me to embark for far unknown shores. many times afterward i saw him under the full moon, and never did he beckon me. very brightly did the moon shine on the night i answered the call, and i walked out over the waters to the white ship on a bridge of moonbeams. the man who had beckoned now spoke a welcome to me in a soft language i seemed to know well, and the hours were filled with soft songs of the oarsmen as we glided away into a mysterious south, golden with the glow of that full, mellow moon. and when the day dawned, rosy and effulgent, i beheld the green shore of far lands, bright and beautiful, and to me unknown. up

ts beyond the horizon and in the phosphorescent depths of ocean. there too were forms and fantasies more splendid than any i had ever known; the visions of young poets who died in want before the world could learn of what they had seen and dreamed. but we did not set foot upon the sloping meadows of zar, for it is told that he who treads them may nevermore return to his native shore. as the white ship sailed silently away from the templed terraces of zar, we beheld on the distant horizon ahead the spires of a mighty city; and the bearded man said to me, this is thalarion, the city of a thousand wonders, wherein reside all those mysteries that man has striven in vain to fathom. and i looked again, at closer range, and saw that the city was greater than any city i had known or dreamed of bef

bearded man to land me at the stone pier by the huge carven gate akariel; but he gently denied my wish, saying, into thalarion, the city of a thousand wonders, many have passed but none returned. therein walk only daemons and mad things that are no longer men, and the streets are white with the unburied bones of those who have looked upon the eidolon lathi, that reigns over the city. so the white ship sailed on past the walls of thalarion, and followed for many days a southward-flying bird, whose glossy plumage matched the sky out of which it had appeared. then came we to a pleasant coast gay with blossoms of every hue, where as far inland as we could see basked lovely groves and radiant arbors beneath a meridian sun. from bowers beyond our view came bursts of song and snatches of lyric ha

. suddenly a wind blowing from over the flowery meadows and leafy woods brought a scent at which i trembled. the wind grew stronger, and the air was filled with the lethal, charnel odor of plague-stricken towns and uncovered cemeteries. and as we sailed madly away from that damnable coast the bearded man spoke at last, saying "this is xura, the land of pleasures unattained. so once more the white ship followed the bird of heaven, over warm blessed seas fanned by caressing, aromatic breezes. day after day and night after night did we sail, and when the moon was full we would listen to soft songs of the oarsmen, sweet as on that distant night when we sailed away from my far native land. and it was by moonlight that we anchored at last in the harbor of sona-nyl, which is guarded by twin headl

white walks are bordered with delicate blossoms. i climbed gentle hills from whose summits i could see entrancing panoramas of loveliness, with steepled towns nestling in verdant valleys, and with the golden domes of gigantic cities glittering on the infinitely distant horizon. and i viewed by moonlight the sparkling sea, the crystal headlands, and the placid harbor wherein lay anchored the white ship. it was against the full moon one night in the immemorial year of tharp that i saw outlined the beckoning form of the celestial bird, and felt the first stirrings of unrest. then i spoke with the bearded man, and told him of my new yearnings to depart for remote cathuria, which no man hath seen, but which all believe to lie beyond the basalt pillars of the west. it is the land of hope, and in

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and we are compelled to go beyond the confines of our country. though in this the connection with the green isle is slight, yet it is of interest as affording an example of that blending of fairy lore with sorcery which is not an uncommon feature of scottish witchcraft-trials. in the year 1613 a woman named margaret barclay, of irvine in scotland, was accused of having caused her brother-in-law's ship to be cast away by magical spells. a certain strolling vagabond and juggler, john stewart, was apprehended as her accomplice; be admitted (probably under torture) that margaret had applied to him to teach her some magic arts in order that "she might get gear, p. 86 kye's milk, love of man, her heart's desire on such persons as had done her wrong" though he does not appear to have granted her

e place where the sun went down, an arm of a blackish blue colour, with a ruddy complection'd hand at one end, and at the other end a cross piece with a ring fasten'd to the middle of it, like one end of an anchor, which stood still for a while, and then made northwards, and so disappeared. next, there p. 151 appeared at a great distance in the air, from the same part of the sky, something like a ship coming towards them; and it came so near that they could distinctly perceive the masts, sails, tacklings, and men; she then seem'd to tack about, and sail'd with the stern foremost, northwards, upon a dark smooth sea, which stretched itself from south-west to north-west. having seem'd thus to sail some few minutes she sunk by degrees into the sea, her stern first; and as she sunk they perceiv

nctly perceive the masts, sails, tacklings, and men; she then seem'd to tack about, and sail'd with the stern foremost, northwards, upon a dark smooth sea, which stretched itself from south-west to north-west. having seem'd thus to sail some few minutes she sunk by degrees into the sea, her stern first; and as she sunk they perceived her men plainly running up the tacklings in the forepart of the ship, as it were to save themselves from drowning. then appeared a fort, with somewhat like a castle on the top of it; out of the sides of which, by reason of some clouds of smoak and a flash of fire suddenly issuing out, they concluded some shot to be made. the fort then was immediately divided in two parts, which were in an instant transformed into two exact ships, like the other they had seen

flash of fire suddenly issuing out, they concluded some shot to be made. the fort then was immediately divided in two parts, which were in an instant transformed into two exact ships, like the other they had seen, with their heads towards each other. that towards the south seem'd to chase the other with its stem [stern] foremost, northwards, till it sunk with its stem first, as p. 152 the, first ship had done; the other ship sail'd some time after, and then sunk with its head first. it was observ'd that men were running upon the decks of these two ships, but they did not see them climb up, as in the last ship, excepting one man, whom they saw distinctly to get up with much haste upon the very top of the bowsprit of the second ship as they were sinking. they supposed the two last ships wer

ilar tales, although not so full of marvellous detail, are reported at different periods from the west of ireland. such indeed seem to have been the origin of the belief in that mysterious island p. 155 o'brasil, lying far out in the western ocean. about the year 1665, a quaker pretended that he had a revelation from heaven that he was the man ordained to discover it, and accordingly fitted out a ship for the purpose. in 1674, captain john nisbet, formerly of co. fermanagh, actually landed there! at this period it was located off ulster. 1 between the clergy and the witches a continuous state of warfare existed; the former, both protestant and roman catholic, ever assumed the offensive, and were most diligent in their attempts to eradicate such a damnable heresy from the world--indeed with

1 ulster journal of arch ology, vol. iii (for 1855. 143:1 glanvill, op. cit, rel. 27. 148:1 law's memorialls. 149:1 baxter, certainty of the world of spirits. 150:1 william turner, compleat history of most remarkable providences (london, 1697. 154:1 seymour, succession of clergy in cashel and emly. 155:1 o'donoghue, brendaniana, p. 301. see joyce, wonders of ireland, p. 30, for an apparition of a ship in the air in celtic times. see also westropp, brasil (proc. r.i.a; that writer actually sketched an illusionary island in 1872. 157:1 memorialls. 163:1 glanvill, op. cit, rel. 18; baxter, op. cit. 167:1 op. cit; w. p, history of witches and wizards (london, 1700. 170:1 john lindon (or lyndon) became junior puisne judge of the chief place in 1682, was knighted in 1692, and died in 1697 (cork

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t is "difficult to believe that the ecclesiastics who sanctioned the publication of such a print* could have been as ignorant as modem ritualists" we are not at all prepared to believe with the same author "that the latter, if they knew the real meaning of the symbols conmionly used by the boman church, would not have adopted them" to eliminate what is plainly derived from the sex and nature wor- ship of the ancient heathens, would be equivalent to pulling down the 219. thtm. taylor: euunnian and baeekie mgturiem, p. 27: 4tli ed. 220. niuitntted fisuns "from an ancient rosuy of the blessed virgin mary, printed t venice, 1524, wiui a lieense from the inquijition" in the uluatnttioni given by dr. inmui the virgin is represented in tn anyrian 'grove' the oaominaiton in on tyi* qf hu tiord, kc

eternal substance ot the buddhists, the so-called atheists. as brahma, the deity manifested in the mythical manu, or the first man (bom of stttgambu, or the sdf-existent one, is finite, so jehovah, embodied in adam and eve, is but a hvnian god. he is the symbol of humanity, a mixture of good with a portion of un- avoidable evil; of spirit fallen into matter. in worahiihdg jehovah, we simply wor- ship luture, as embodied in man, half- spiritual and half-material, at best: we arc pantheists, when not fetish worshipos, like the idolatrous jews, who sacrificed on high places, in poves, to the per- bonified male and female principle, ignorant of iao, the supreme 'setret nome' of the mysteries. shekhinah is the hindq vacb, and praised in the same terms as the latter. thmigh shown in the kabolis

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

title, hints the cabiri, who carried, doubtless, in their explorations, as equally with their commerce and their arts, their religious usages and their faith, as pyramidically intensifying, until it flashed truth upon the worlds in the grand fire- dogma! that faith to which sprung monuments from all the sea-borders at which glittered the beak-itself an imitation flame of every many-oared, single ship of their adventurous, ocean-dotting fleets, the precursors of the exploring ships of the vikings. we claim the caldron of the witches as, in the original, the vase or urn of .the fiery transmigration, in which all the things of the world change. we accept the sign of the double-extended fingers (pointed in a fork, or of horns, which throughout italy, the greek islands, greece, and turkey, is

ken word) to a thoth; the jews, to seth or his children (josephus, ant. i, 2, 3; the greeks, to hermes. but thout in coptic (pezron, lexicon lingua. coptic s. voc. gen xix. 26 in the coptic version, also tc in hebrew, and `erm j (hermes) in greek, are all names for a pillar or post. this is the homeric use of rma and rmij (il, 486; od, 278; kenrick s essay on primeval history, p. 119. arca is the ship, navis (from thence come nave and navel, in which the germ of animated nature was saved. thebes, or theba, means the ark. carnac, or karnak, in egypt, is reckoned to be older than the days of moses at least dating from 1600 a.c. 170 the rosicrucians. heraldic genealogy of the fleur-de-lis, or flower-de-luce. apotheosis of the symbol fig. 40. 4. bee. 6. bee. 7. imperial bee. 8. fleuron. 9. cha

or the robes of the king and for the furniture of the throne. it was too late to send to genoa for a supply; and through this accidental deficiency it happened that the king was attired in white velvet at the solemnity of his coronation, and not in red or purple robes, as consisted with the proper usage. as an earlier instance of this singular superstition, the story of that ill-fated royal white ship occurs to memory, as the vessel was called wherein prince william, the son of king henry the first, the heir-apparent, with his natural sister, the countess of perche, and a large company of the young nobility, embarked on their return to england from normandy. it might be supposed that the misfortunes of king charles the first, which were accepted, at that time of monarchical dismay, as the

eathed; fig. 143. alternate direct and crooked radii, or glories, set round sacred objects. figs. 144, 143. collar of esses. 146 147 148 fig, 146. egg-and-tongue moulding, caryatic prostyle, pandroseum (temple of erechthaeus, athens) fig. 147. moslem: the crescent and star; also plantagenet. fig. 148. honeysuckle, greek stele. fig. 149. egg-aud-tongue moulding, roman example. also the pole of the ship argo( arco; otherwise the tree of knowledge. the ribbons of the maypole should be of the seven prismatic colours. fig. 156 shows the union of the phallus and yoni, and 234 the rosicrucians. exhibits unmistakably the destination and purpose of the familiar maypole. 150 151 152 fig 150. rhamasseion, thebes, caryatic portico. fig 151. india, origin of the corinthian. fig 152. india, rudimental c

231. cap, capital, chapiter, tabernacle, mythic domus templi, or domus dei. they are miniature, mystical round churches, or tors. the chapter-houses oblong in shape are imithe olic digamma. 265 tative of the ark of the mosaical covenant. all the basilicas are of this figure. the symbol is a parallelogram, or an oblong, when the shape adopted is that of the temples. it then is the navis, nave, or ship which is the argo. les chinois l adorent dans f t. la langue chinoise n ayant ni le b ni le d, ce peuple a prononc f t ce que les indiens et les parses prononcent b t, bot, bod, bodd, ou boudd par o bref f t, au pegou, est devenu fota et fta. query, pthah (vulcan) of the egyptians, and the teutonic f s in friga (the runic venus" ffriga friday? b f, p f, are interchangeable letters (see arabic

dei, or paschal lamb, or; gules, the agnus dei, displaying over the right shoulder the standard of the temple; or, a banner, triple cloven, bearing a cross gules; azure, a cross prolonged, potent, issuant out of the crescent moon argent, horns upwards; on either side of the cross, a star or. this latter figure signifies the virgin mary, and displays the cross as rising like the pole, or mast of a ship (argha, out of the midst of the crescent moon, or navis biprora, curved at both ends; azure, sem e of estoiles or. the staff of the grand master of the templars symbols in the temple church. 269 displayed a curved cross of four splays, or blades, red upon white. the eight-pointed red bhuddist cross was also one of the templar ensigns. the temple arches abound with brandished estoiles, or star

body, as she passes through the twelve zodiacal signs. regulating the seasons, and the hours of the day and night) man s side (sun) dexter. wine. bread. twin westerntowers, or spires. galilee, west porch for the people. west. sun sets. night. northtransept (chief nail) right hand. male: sacred pillar jachin. female: sacred pillar boaz. southtransept (second nail) left hand. nave, from navel, body ship, or ark. place of fons. twonails, in the fountain, or font. latin rite, in the feet; one nail in the greekrite. woman s side (moon) sinister. axis inclined (ecliptic (chapter-house) cor or choir (equatorial (as deliberative judgement seat) the blessed lady st. john. aries, head and face taurus, neck andthroat gemini, arms and shoulders cancer, breast and stomach leo, heart and back virgo, ven

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

space. they mentioned the building of undersea cities and identified two groups of spacemen, l-m s and s-m s. the l-m s were designated as peaceful, the s-m s as sinister. 5 some of the terms used would have been familiar to any ufologist of the 1950 s, yet others expressed an alien-like vocabulary which had never been previously used in saucer literature. some of the terms were: mothership, home-ship, dead-ship, great ark, great bombardment, great return, great war, little-men, force-fields, deep freezes, measure markers, scout ships, magnetic and gravity fields, sheet of diamond, cosmic rays, force cutters, inlay work, clear-talk, telepathing, burning coat, nodes, vortice, magnetic net. they explained what happened to people and to ships and planes which had disappeared, as discussed in

sea cities is mentioned. many different kinds of ships are used as transportation. these two peoples, races or whatever they may be called, are referred to over and over again. they are called lm's and s-ms. the l-m's seem to be peaceful; the s-m's are not. it seems that the annotations are inclined toward the l-m's as they speak more kindly of them that the s-m's. terms such as: mothership, home-ship, dead-ship, great ark, great bombardment, great return, great war, little-men, force-fields, deep freezes, undersea building, measure markers, scout ships, magnetic and gravity fields, sheets of diamond, cosmic rays, force cutters, undersea explorers, inlay work, clear-talk, telepathing, burning "coat, nodes, vortice, magnetic "net, and many others are used quite naturally by these men. they

nce or indication. there is one sphere of indirect evidence in the form of events of mysterious nature which have never been explained. these things would be easy to explain were we to admit the limitations of our own knowledge, and the possibility of "intelligence" elsewhere in the universe operating space ships- quite possibly more than one kind of "intelligence" and more than one kind of space ship. this world is full of unexplained oddities. the legends of atlantis and mu have been favorite targets of the scoffers "they" say there are no ghosts, no spirits, nothing falls from the sky but iron and stone meteorites. but for centuries the earth was believed to be flat, there was no america, no heliocentric system of earth and planets, no fossil dinosaurs; yet we know these beliefs to have

certain fields surrounding a current, this field being used for that purpose. had farraday concerned himself about the mag. field surrounding an electric current, we today would not exist or if we did exist, our present geo-political situation would have the very time-bomish, ticking off towards destruction, atmosphere that now exists. alright, alright! the "result" was complete invisibility of a ship, destroyer type, and all of its crew while at sea (oct. 1943) the field was effective in an oblate spheroidal shape, extending one hundred yards (more or less, due to lunar position& latitude) out from each beam of the ship. any person within that sphere became vague in form but he too observed those persons aboard that ship as though they too were of the same state, yet were walking upon not

he same state, yet were walking upon nothing. any person without that sphere could see nothing save the clearly defined shape of the ships hull in the water, providing of course, that that person was just close enough to see yet, just barely outside of the field. why tell you now? very simple; if you choose to go mad, then you would reveal this information. half of the officiers& the crew of that ship are at present, mad as hatters. a few, are even yet, confined to certain areas where they may receive trained scientific aid when they, either "go blank" or go blank "get stuck. going-bland ie an after effect of the man having been within the field too much, is not at all an unplesant experience too healthily curious sailors. however it is when also, they "get stuck" that they call it "hell"

ive, breathe, look& feel but still are unaware of so utterly many things as to constitute a "nether world" to them. a man in an ordinary common freeze is aware of time, sometimes acutely so. yet they are never aware of time precisely as you or i are aware of it. the first "deep freeze" as i said took 6 months to rectify. it also took over 5 million dollars worth of electronic equipment& a special ship berth. if around or near the philadelphia navy 2 and you see a group of sailors in the act of putting their hands upon a fellow or upon "thin air" observe the digits& appendages of the stricken man. if they seem to waver, as tho within a heat-mirage, go quickly& put your hands upon him, for that man is the very most desparate of men in the world. not one of those men ever want at all to becom

after their initial voyage. they raided a local to the navy yard "gin mill" or "beer joint& caused such shock& paralysis of the waitresses that little comprehensible could be gotten from them, save that paragraph& the writer of it, does not believe it& says "i only wrote what i heard& them dames is daffy. so, all i get is a "hide-it" bedtime story" check observer ships crew, matson lines liberty ship out of norfolk (company may have ships log for that voyage or coast guard have it) the s.s. andrew furnseth, chief mate mowsely (will secure captains name later (ships log has crew list on it) one crew member richard price or "splicey" price may remember other names of dec crew men (coast guard has record of sailors issued "papers) mr. price was 18 or 19 then, oct. 1943, and lives or lived at

KETAB E SIYAH

e elohim hosts, for our power alone cannot pierce 250 to the earth beneath heaven to release the gates beneath the seas so that the mountains' peaks might be submersed beneath the waves. to you shall i teach the invocation by which this end might be wrought. before this is done, noah, that you and your family might endure and repeople the earth with a more noble race you must build for yourself a ship that shall be in length three hundred cubits that shall be in breadth fifty cubits that shall be in height thirty cubits. into this great vessel you shall install all your family that they might escape the waters and two of each kind of beast that goes on earth that the produce of god's creation be not lost. when such a ship is built and stocked then shall we recite the incantation by which t

s is the dictate of your king and not with ease does he suffer your shame but does reach out in wrath and destroy those that would sin against him. make your prostrations doubly then lest you invite the ire of god and with triple swiftness make firm that which he wills of you" so did noah hear the word of michael, spoken in the secret places of the desert, and set to work his household to build a ship of those dimensions that the elohim prince had specified to him. yet not noah alone heard michael's words for upon a spire of rock close to that place where michael had disclosed the plan, determined by his inclement lord, watched the silver crane, ashmedai, who had followed noah since his banishment 251 from the city where he had revealed his new allegiance and been mocked by the more knowin

in the dreams of fitful slumber. one hand he raised to bid farewell, holding it aloft a moment then dropping it and turning from the shore. 268 some way out into the sea small boats heavy with the people of shurupuk followed like porpoises, from the shore then these too were gone and utanapishtim wept. unknowing of that which passed in shurupuk noah laboured long days and nights to complete that ship that he was commanded. a great vessel was it that he joined in the desert and elohim-aided first the keel then high ribs, fleshed with tarred planks, were constructed and fixed with nails of steel. like some great and black wasp it grew beneath the searing sun of day and chill stars of the desert night. noah became as some shade, scarce remembering to eat or sleep whilst he laboured to comple

leep whilst he laboured to complete his task and avenge himself upon those that he accused. filthy and long was his black hair and his flesh was gaunt and pale. his eyes sunk within his head, giving him the aspect of a skull and the cruel day sky burnt from him his wits that all the while he worked he addressed commands and exhortations to slaves that lived but within his mind. thus was built the ship of noah. when its dark form was finished, casting a great shadow on the sands as the day died bloody in the west came michael to noah from the south and behind him was some great number of beasts of each kind a male and female, lions, serpents, birds and deer, and unnumbered others that went on the earth and from the wind drew breath. so came michael once more to noah to fulfil his black sche

ered others that went on the earth and from the wind drew breath. so came michael once more to noah to fulfil his black scheme and thwart that scheme of mine which was born of his own treachery and malice 269 that had not dwindled but grown darker yet "hail noah, son of lamech" spoke the prince of heaven "this number of beasts have i brought to you that you might gather them and bring them to the ship you built. now that it is prepared there is no reason to make further delay but to equip the ship and load up the beasts to their cells. we can thus bring about the deluge more swiftly and for a briefer period will the creation of god be compelled to bear the burden of mankind's sin. make haste then noah to load up your boat and tell your family to prepare to sail though the desert sands be a

re wearied by those toils that your hand has already made complete spurn not yet greater industry now when it is most necessary and its reward is both near and great. make preparations for the voyage and then i shall teach to you those incantations that you must know to summon from the sky and depths the waters to raise up the flood. the keys to the great cataracts shall be taught to you once the ship is ready so make haste that god's will be not thwarted for a longer time than must be for it to be accomplished. act now, noah, and find vengeance that you so earnestly desire" did that mad criminal need such words as these? no! his heart was so black with hate, 270 flowing in his blood like a burning venom, that no words of elohim tongue were there that would spur the flagitious one to crime

he elohim came, screaming rage above the thunder in one awesome charge against the ships and yet not with some desperation, knowing that could they not gain the solid timbers they would find no respite upon wing. seven times sang bowstrings before they closed and seven times shining shapes precipitated from the ragged ranks into the froth below. then were the elohim upon the ships. 280 upon every ship the knights of shurupuk rushed forth to meet the elohim spears with mace and javelin and battle-cry and soon were the decks slick with gore where but rain had made them slick before. yet and yet sang the archer's bows cutting from the winds those of heaven who found no perch upon the crowded decks. now upon the ships of the king where utanapishtim himself contended, striking down to each side

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

through his efforts, he finally managed to discern the shape of the body that produced the ripples and thus was able to see the ships. subsequently, he described what he saw to his tribesmen, and because they trusted him, they, too, succeeded in creating the form of the ships, until they all saw columbus ships. kabbalah asserts that nothing exists outside the human mind. creating the model of the ship in the shaman s mind built the picture of the ship for him, which the shaman thought existed outside of him. actually, a ship does not exist on the outside whatsoever; it is only we who are conditioned to relate to reality as independently existing in an outside reality in which we are making daily discoveries. kabbalists, however, say that all innovations are merely new models inside our own

ms to him. the sum of the images creates our image of the creator. p e r c e p t i o n pa t t e r n s 127 c r e at i n g m o d e l s let us briefly return to columbus ships. the shaman could not detect the ships because he didn t have the model of such a big floating house in his mind. in kabbalistic terms, we would say that he didn t have the kli to detect this form. for the shaman to detect the ship, its form would have to preexist in his mind, which he would compare to the observed form. he would then recognize it as a ship on the basis of equivalence of form between the preexisting model and the ship he saw on the outside. however, to be able to feel the spiritual reality, we must come across someone who would tell us about it. hence, kabbalists write their books. we can use these book

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

s, whom he had espoused, to cast aside the aryan traditions and establish lower forms of worship; but the clan drew together and, by strictly marrying only among themselves, preserved the old customs and religion as well as their purity of race. nearly four thousand years after the arrival of the indians, there arose in egypt certain prophets who foretold a great flood, so the clan in a body took ship across the red sea and found a refuge among the mountains of arabia. 63. in 9,564 b.c. the prophecy was fulfilled; the island of poseidonis sank beneath the atlantic ocean in the deluge mentioned in the timaeus of plato; at the same time the land rose and made the sahara desert where a shallow sea had been before, and a vast tidal wave swept over egypt, so that almost its entire population wa

ence in the third, but there is no invocation of the elementals, although the journeys are compared to the ancient trials by earth, air, fire and water. 517. an interesting confirmation of the use of these trials or journeys is given in the transactions of the a.q.c, in an account of his own initiation by robert guillemand, the man who killed lord nelson at trafalgar by shooting him from a french ship. he was initiated during the siege of strasburg, and tile account, which is dated 1807, says: 518. it took place accordingly, with all the splendour circumstances admitted, in a hut about 15 ft. in length and 6 in breadth, where there was no room to stand up, but which served as a temple notwithstanding. after having made my journeys, which were not very long ones, under-gone the trials by fi

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

. rite of perfection disappeared from public view. at some time during this period the myth of the formation of the 33 by frederick the great arose and the alleged grand constitutions of1762 and 1786 were produced. who was originally responsible for these is not known, but there is clearly no foundation for them, though they were widely accepted as genuine. 1796 isaac long conferred the inspector ship upon comte de grasse tilly, founder of the supreme council of france, upon his father-in-law, de la hogue, and a number of others. 1801 formation of the mother supreme council of the world at charleston. eight degrees were added to the 25 of the rite of perfection. 1802 a scottish rite of 33 is said to have been formed in paris. de grasse tilly and de la hogue formed a supreme council 33 in p

LEWIS JAMES SATANISM TODAY AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION FOLKLORE AND POPULAR CULTURE

t,miriam van. encyclopedia of hell. new york: thomas dunne books, 1998. the beast computer legend according to an urban legend that has been heard and repeated by millions of christians, there is a computer under the control of the european common market in belgium that occupies three stories of an unmarked building. one version of this tale from a letter written by a georgia woman appears on the ship of fools website: a myth i heard as early as 1973, and have heard repeatedly over the years, concerns a giant computer in belgium, taking up the space of a city block, and housed in a building. the name of the computer is the beast, and reportedly information on everyone in the world is kept on it. this means that when we have to take the mark of the beast, the antichrist government can track

he screenplay for the rapture, a film by david wilkerson. the confusion seems to have arisen from promotional flyers that were propagated in the form of realistic-looking mock newspapers containing stories that supposedly reported such endtime events as the giant computer. see also hellhole for further reading: robinson, b. a. christian urban legends. http//www.religioustolerance.org/chr_cul.htm. ship of fools. the beast of belgium. http//ship-of-fools.com/myths/06myth.html. beast of the yellow night in this 1970 film, a man makes a deal with the devil a plump, cheerful chap for the usual goodies, money, and power. he doesn t realize until it s too late that the price he pays is to become an ugly monster. bedazzled stanley donen s 1967 comedy built around a faust theme was written and perf

re saying that they heard human screams. screams have been heard from the condemned souls from earth s deepest hole. terrified scientists are afraid they have let loose the evil powers of hell up to the earth s surface. the information we are gathering is so surprising, that we are sincerely afraid of what we might find down there, stated dr. azzacov, the manager of the project in remote siberia (ship of fools website) many members of the team refused to continue the work. a later embellishment of the story was that luminous vapors escaped from the hole, forming a glowing, batlike creature (a bat out of hell, so to speak. the words i have conquered appeared in russian in the heavens. the trinity broadcasting network broadcast the tale at least three times, and sent out a story about the he

cked up from a christian newsletter. and the creator of the report about luminous gasses congealing into a bat and words appearing in the sky eventually confessed to fabricating the incident as a way of demonstrating the gullibility of conservative christians. see also beast computer legend for further reading: robinson, b. a. christian urban legends. http//www.religioustolerance.org/chr_cul.htm. ship of fools. drilling to hell. http//ship-offools. com/myths/03myth.html. hellraiser the 1987 film hellraiser is based on clive barker s novel about a portal to hell, whose doorway is not in any one place but is, rather, accessible from anywhere. it is a passageway between the earth and the underworld, through which both demons and human beings can come and go. cenobites are a band of ghouls fro

non-violent (rael 1986, 94 95. certain biblical stories, such as the flood, are explained in terms of the intervention of satan s party: the group who believed that nothing but evil came out of man, presided on by one of the elohim named satan, finally triumphed, and the destruction of all life on earth came about by the flood (ibid, 4. according to this narrative, noah s ark was actually a space ship within which another party of elohim preserved humanity. making a positive use of satan s negative attitude toward humanity, satan became responsible for testing the faithfulness of the prophets chosen to relay the message of the elohim: once a person had been contracted by the messengers of the elohim, telling him of his mission, satan, or one of his men, would contact the prophet-to-be and

LIBER ALEPH

of halogens with each other, is no strong passion of explosive force, and the love between two persons of the like character and taste is placid and without transmutation to higher planes. i the book of wisdom or folly 23 f de nuptiis mysticis (of the mystic marriage) my son, how wonderful is the wisdom of this law of love! how vast are the oceans of uncharted joy that lie before the keel of thy ship! yet know this, that every opposition is in its nature named sorrow, and the joy lieth in the destruction of the dyad. therefore, must thou seek ever those things which are to thee poisonous, and that in the highest degree, and make them thine by love. that which repels, that which disgusts, must thou assimilate in this way of wholeness. yet rest not in the joy of the destruction of each comp

or the supposed good of another, and for that other is it evil also in the end of the matter. for to manifest thine own division to another, and to deceive him, is but to confirm him in blindness, or illusion, and to hinder or to deflect him in his way. now to do thine own will is to leave him free to do his own will, but to mask thy will is to falsify one of the beacons by which he may steer his ship. my son, all division of soul, that begetteth neurosis and insanity, cometh from wrong adjustment to reality, and to fear thereof. wilt thou then hide truth from thy brother, lest he suffer? thou dost not well, but confirmest him in iniquity, and in illusion, and in infirmity of spirit. h the book of wisdom or folly 119 dx de mysterio eucharistico universali (of the universal eucharistick mys

l, subtle and perverse, that thou mightest fulfil his work of a magus which i cam to accomplish, robing myself in flesh of man, as was my nature and the will of my nature, the name of my star that flameth in the body of nuith our lady. m liber aleph vel cxi 204 zu de ratione huius epistol scribend (of the reason of writing this epistle) ehold, i draw unto the end of this discourse of wisdom, as a ship that hath adventured upon ocean, from whose mast the watcher espieth in the dimness of the horizon a point of snow, being the peak of a great mountain that is guardian of the harbour, the term of that voyage. so now do i commit thee wholly unto thyself, for i exist not in thine universe, save in my relation with thee, wherefore this part of me is in truth thou rather than i. yet do thou treas

LIBER CCC KHABS AM PEKHT

aon of horus is made manifest by the universal war. this is the first great and direct result of the equinox of the gods, and is the preparation of the hearts of men for the reception of the law. let us remind you that this is a magical formula of cosmic scope, and that it is given in exact detail in the legend of the golden fleece. jason, who in this story represents the beast, first fits out a ship guided by wisdom or athena, and this is his aspiration to the great work. accompanied by many heroes, he comes to the place of the fleece, but they can do nothing until medea, the scarlet woman, puts into his hands a posset .drugged with somnolence, sleepy with poppy and white hellebore. for the dragon. then jason is able to subdue the bulls, sacred to osiris, and symbolical of his aon and th

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

entry. will write down a few of the events that i remember during that time. have done some slight morning and evening practice almost every day. have occupied a fair amount of time in giving what instructions i can on occult matters to those who have requested information. s. and l. have become sufficiently interested to apply for studentship, and w. has at last written and asked re probationer-ship. have heard finally from fra p.a. and answered his letter. nov. 26, 11:40 to 11:55 p.m. meditation on love. commenced with sending love to the six directions of space (see training of the mind, the equinox, vol. 5. became identified with love to the exclusion of all other ideas. it is verily a dew which dissolves thought [dangerous, though, for a beginner. often means little more than the mau

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

e knights fail to lift him, this being the test of worthiness. vii. lancelot findeth him upon scawfell, clothed in his white beard. he returneth, and, touching the dwarf but with his finger, herleth him to the heaven. viii. sir palamede, riding forth on the quest, seeth a druid worship the sun upon stonehenge. he rideth eastward, and findeth the sun setting in the west. furious he taketh a viking ship, and by sword and whip fareth seaward. ix. coming to india, he learneth that it glittereth. vainly fighting the waves,the leaves, and the snows, he is swept in the himalayas as by an avalanche into a valley where dwell certain ascetics, who pelt him with their eyeballs. x. seeking it as majesty, he chaseth an elephant in the indian jungle. the elephant escapeth; but he, led to trichinopoli by

ast. none answer. is the quest in vain? with oaken crown there comes a priest in samite robes, with hazel wand, and worships at the gilded east. ay! thither ride! the dawn beyond must run the quarry of his quest. he rode as he were wood or fond, until at night behoves him rest .he saw the gilding far behind out on the hills toward the west! with aimless fury hot and blind he flung him on a viking ship. he slew the rover, and inclined the seamen to his stinging whip. accurs.d of god, despising men, thy reckless oars in ocean dip, sir palamede the saracen! 22 ix sir palamede the saracen sailed ever with a favouring wind unto the smooth and swarthy men that haunt the evil shore of hind: he queried eager of the quest .ay! ay. their cunning sages grinned .it shines! it shines! guess thou the re

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

rigid to a strong projection of will toward adonai, as has been my custom. i hope to-day will be more hard definite magical work, less discourse, less beatific state of mind.which is the very devil! the real calypso, none the less temptress because her name happens to be penelope. ah lord adonai, my lord! grant unto me the perfume and the vision; let me attain the desirable harbour; for my little ship is tossed by divers tempests, even by euroclydon, in the place where four winds meet. 12.35. therefore i shall go to rest, letting my mind rest ever in the will toward adonai. let my sleep be toward him, or annihilation; let my waking be to the music of his name; let the day be full to the uttermost of him only. 2.18. my good friend the body woke me at this hour by means of disturbed dreams a

LIBER ISRAFEL

ey fs thoth deck it is called gthe aon. h. t.s] 2 liber israfel i am the charioteer of the east, lord of the past and of the future. i see by mine own inward light: lord of resurrection; who cometh forth from the dusk, and my birth is from the house of death. 7. o ye two divine hawks upon your pinnacles! who keep watch over the universe! ye who company the bier to the house of rest! who pilot the ship of ra advancing onwards to the heights of heaven! lord of the shrine which standeth in the centre of the earth! 8. behold, he is in me, and i in him! mine is the radiance, wherein ptah floateth over the firmament! i travel upon high! i tread upon the firmament of nu! i raise a flashing flame, with the lightning of mine eye! ever rushing on, in the splendour of the daily glorified ra: giving m

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

dare live out their lives, and little care worries their souls.worse fools they seem than even christians. do i dream? probing philosophy to marrow, what thought darts in its poisoned arrow but this (my wisdom, even to me, seems folly) may their folly be true wisdom? o esteemed tahuti !25 you are, you are, you are a beauty! if after all these years of worship you hail ra26 his bark or nuit27 her ship* a flat cake of unleavened bread. as a matter of fact they do not enjoy and indeed will not eat them, preferring .dok. a paste of coarse flour and water, wrapped round a hot stone. it cooks gradually, and remains warm all day. 115 120 125 130 135 140 145 live out thy life! character of balti. his religious sincerity. relations of poet and the egyptian god of wisdom. crowley dismissed with a j

tands, will not bear close inspection. what buddha really commands with that grim humour of his, is: avoid intoxication. but what is intoxication? unless it be the loss of power to use perfectly a truth-telling set of faculties. if i walk unsteadily it is owing to nervous lies.and so for all the phenomena of drunkenness. but a lie involves the assump* quoted in .science and buddhism, s. iv, note .ship me somewhere east of suez, where a man can raise a thirst..r. kipling .while as for quilp hop o. my thumb there banjo-byron that twangs the strum-strum there .browning, pachiarotto (said of a. austin) tion of some true standard, and this can nowhere be found. a doctor would tell you, moreover, that all food intoxicates: all, here as in all the universe, of every subject and in every predicate

been (some of us) a little apt to go out to fight with no other weapon .fitzjames.s blade was sword and shield. and that served him against the murderous bludgeon-sword of the ruffianly highlander he happened to meet; but he would have fared ill had he called a western sheriff a liar, or gone off boer-sticking on spion kop. reason has done its utmost; theory has glutted us, and the motion of the ship is a little trying; mixed metaphore.excellent in a short essay like this.is no panacea for all mental infirmities; we must seek another guide. all the facts science has so busily collected, varied as they seem to be, are in reality all of the same kind. if we are to have one salient fact, a fact for a real advance, it must be a fact of a different order. have we such a fact to hand? we have

lel for the heaven of the christian. it is sufficient if i reiterate the unanimous opinion of competent scholars, that there is no fragment of evidence in any canonical book sufficient to establish such interpretations in the teeth of buddhist tradition and practice; and that any person who persists in tuning buddhism to his own jew s harp in this way is risking his reputation, either for scholar-ship or good faith. scientific men are common enough in the west, if buddhists are not; and i may safely leave in their hands the task of castigating the sneak-thieves of the physical area. ii. the essential features of bhuddism have been summed up by the buddha himself. to me, of course, what the buddha said or did not say is immaterial; a thing is true or not true, whoever said it. we believe mr

LIBER SAMEKH

eration (120 ]ms, samekh gin full h) was applied by crowley during work on the ritual circa 1920, and had been previously referred to another class d ritual of a a, gliber cadavaris h (the zelator initiation, in the latter case for reasons of grosicrucian symbolism. h the number under which samekh actually appeared in mtp, 800, was also liber samekh& liber viii 46 assigned to an earlier work, the ship, a mystery play published in equinox i (10. in both instances the reference is probably to ctq, qetesh, a bow and the three paths from malkuth, from the centre of which samekh, the path of the arrow, ascends. 800 is also, or so we are assured by the illustrious editor of the gblue brick h edition of magick, the number of gsamekh final h, an otherwise unknown hebrew letter-form, but this it wo

LIBER THISHARB

d? of what service can my being prove to the brothers of the a a if i cross the abyss, and am admitted to the city of the pyramids? 33. now that he may clearly understand the nature of this question, and the method of solution, let him study the reasoning of th anatomist who reconstructs an animal from a single bone. to take a simple example. 34. suppose, having lived all my life among savages, a ship is cast upon the shore and wrecked. undamaged among the cargo is a gvictoria. h what is its use? the wheels speak of roads, their slimness of smooth roads, the brake of hilly roads. the shalts show that it was meant to be drawn by an animal, their height and length suggest an animal of the size of a horse. that the carriage is open suggests a climate tolerable at any rate for part of the year

LIBER XLIV THE MASS OF THE PHOENIX

pearl beads to be told.the string broke after the first performance; the suggestion perhaps is that 44 had been communicated by rose as a particular number of horus prior to the ritual, though there is no clear statement to that effect in the account of the cairo working (then again, the cairo working is generally very poorly documented and it has even been suggested that crowley was booked on a ship back to england before april 8th. t.s] 5 [commentary by crowley on this chapter as printed in the second edition of the book of lie aliber lv the chymical j o u s t i n g o f brother perardua with the seven lances that he brake v a a publication in class c the regimen of the seven 1 the chymical jousting of brother perardua with the seven lances that he brake he slayeth sir argon le paresseux

LINDOW JOHN NORSE MYTHOLOGY A GUIDE TO THE GODS HEROES RITUALS AND BELIEFS

forests, oceans, storms, cold weather, fierce winters, eagles, ravens, salmon, and snakes. people get about on ships and on horseback. they eat slaughtered meat and drink beer. as in scandinavia, north is a difficult direction, and so is east, probably because our mythology comes from west scandinavia (norway and iceland, where travel to the east required going over mountains, and going west on a ship was far easier for this seafaring culture. it is helpful to think of three time periods in which the mythology takes place. in the mythic past, the asir created and ordered the world and joined with another group, the vanir, to make up the community of gods. somehow this golden age was disrupted in the mythic present. as dwarfs, humans, and occasionally elves look on and are sometimes drawn i

of snorri or, arguably, one of his copyists, and it intrudes on the framing device of a dialogue between agir and bragi. that device is taken up again when snorri introduces the story of thor fs duel with hrungnir and of thor fs journey to geirrod, but thereafter it is dropped. additional mythic narratives in skaldskaparmal include the acquisition from one set of dwarfs of sif fs golden hair, the ship skidbladnir, odin fs spear gungnir, odin fs ring draupnir, frey fs boar gullinborsti, and thor fs hammer mjollnir, and the subsequent acquisition from another dwarf of the gold and cursed ring that play a large role in heroic legend. a good deal of heroic legend is also recounted in skaldskaparmal. it seems that snorri next was moved to write up the rest of the myths and to do so with a frame

in the tenth and eleventh centuries. time 45 this page intentionally left blank 3 deities, themes, and concepts agir the sea personified; a famous host to the gods but listed among the jotnar. the name appears to be identical to a noun for gsea h in skaldic poetry, and that noun, or the name of the figure under discussion here, is the base word in many kennings. for example, gagir fs horse h is a ship, and gdaughters of agir h are waves. in skaldskaparmal, snorri says that ran is the wife of agir and that they have nine daughters, most of whom bear names meaning gwave. h since ran is listed among the goddesses in the thulur and agir has a peaceful relationship with the gods, his inclusion in the thulur as a giant seems questionable. the eddic poems often show agir as host to the gods. hymi

the sea; nine sisters, daughters of agir and ran. agir is the sea personified, and his daughters are the waves. the poet known only as svein, perhaps an icelander of the eleventh century, describes a wintry storm in which gusts of wind from the mountains riffle and tear apart agir fs daughters, that is, the waves. helgakvida hundingsbana i, stanza 29, calls a powerful wave that nearly overturns a ship agir fs daughter. in skaldskaparmal, snorri sturluson says that ran is agir fs wife and the mother of agir fs daughters. snorri lists their names twice, with a variation in the eighth name only: himinglafa (transparent-on-top, dufa (wave, blodudhadda (bloody-hair, hefring (lifting, unn (wave, hronn (wave, bylgja (billow, kara (powerful) or drofn (wave, and kolga (cool-wave. the only one of th

he fallen son of the very wise tester of the raven [odin. the very powerful hild of the mountains [giantess] caused the sea-sleipnir [ship] to trudge forward; but the wielders of the helmet flames of hropt [odin] felled her mount. snorri has more detail. he adds several gods to the list of those who attended, and he makes sense out of the stanza with the giantess in it by stating that the funeral ship could not be launched and that the gods therefore sent to jotunheimar for that ogress who was called hyrrokkin. gshe arrived riding a wolf with poisonous snakes for reins, and when she dismounted, odin called to four berserks to look after the horse, and they could not hold it unless they killed it. then hyrrokkin went to the prow of the ship and shot it forward at the first try so that spark

eir spears h (stanza 8b. in stanza 20 the poet asks about berserks, gwho drink blood, h and answers himself: gthey are called wolf-skins/ who in battle/ carry bloody shields/ they redden spears/ when they come to battle h (stanza 21a. according to chapter 9 of vatnsdala saga, one of the sagas of icelanders, probably composed in the years just before 1280, harald fairhair had berserks on board his ship who were called ulfhednar; they wore wolfskins and defended the prow. the connection between wolf-skins and berserks supports one of the suggested etymologies for medieval icelandic berserkr, namely, gbear-shirt, h and this etymology is ordinarily mentioned in light of such warrior-animal amalgamations as those on the torslunda helmet plates from sweden, which suggest warriors wearing animal

is more uncomfortable than that of his monster children, however, for a snake hangs over his head dripping venom. his wife sigyn collects the venom in a bowl, but when she goes to empty the bowl loki writhes in anguish and shakes the earth, gand that is now called earthquakes, h as the passage following lokasenna puts it. loki of course gets free at ragnarok and according to voluspa will steer a ship full of the forces of evil against the gods. snorri also grants him a mutually fatal single combat with heimdall. since the early twentieth century, and especially through the influential study of ragnarok by axel olrik, loki as bound monster has been associated with similar figures from traditions of people living in the caucasus. however, at least fenrir and garm are also clearly bound mons

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

ng the last twenty-six centuries. the greek school of philosophy had its inception with the seven immortalized thinkers upon whom was first conferred the appellation of sophos "the wise" according to diogenes laertius, these were thales, solon, chilon, pittacus, bias, cleobulus, and periander. water was conceived by thales to be the primal principle or element, upon which the earth floated like a ship, and earthquakes were the result of disturbances in this universal sea. since thales was an ionian, the school perpetuating his tenets became known as the ionic. he died in 546 b.c, and was succeeded by anaximander, who in turn was followed by anaximenes, anaxagoras, and archelaus, with whom the ionic school ended. anaximander, differing from his master thales, declared measureless and indefi

h an image at sinope. the pharaoh immediately dispatched soteles and dionysius to negotiate for the removal of the figure to alexandria. three years elapsed before the image was finally obtained, the representatives of the pharaoh finally stealing it and concealing the theft by spreading a story that the statue had come to life and, walking down the street leading from its temple, had boarded the ship prepared for its transportation to alexandria. upon its arrival in egypt, the figure was brought into the presence of two egyptian initiates--the eumolpid timotheus and manetho the sebennite--who, immediately pronounced it to be serapis. the priests then declared that it was equipollent to pluto. this was a masterly stroke, for in serapis the greeks and egyptians found a deity in common and t

characters of the planets and the signs of the zodiac which assisted the planets in their functions. this signified that the heavenly influences directed the destinies of the principles and sperms of all things, because they were the governors of all sublunary bodies, which they transformed into little worlds made in the image of the greater universe. isis holds in her right hand a small sailing ship with the spindle of a spinning wheel for its mast. from the top of the mast projects a water jug, its handle shaped like a serpent swelled with venom. this indicates that isis steers the bark of life, full of troubles and miseries, on the stormy ocean of time. the spindle symbolizes the fact that she spins and cuts the thread of life. these emblems further signify that isis abounds in humidit

eternity knows neither past nor future. it is called jupiter, because he is father and head of the gods; vesta, the fire of the home, because it is located in the midst of the universe and remains there inclining to no side as a dot in a circle; form, because it circumscribes, comprehends, and terminates; love, concord, and piety, because it is indivisible. other symbolic names for the monad are ship, chariot, proteus (a god capable of changing his form, mnemosyne, and polyonymous (having many names. the following symbolic names were given to the duad--2--because it has been divided, and is two rather than one; and when there are two, each is opposed to the other: genius, evil, darkness, inequality, instability, movability, boldness, fortitude, contention, matter, dissimilarity, partition

athers believed that the "whale" which swallowed jonah was the symbol of god the father, who, when the hapless prophet was thrown overboard, accepted jonah into his own nature until a place of safety was reached. the story of jonah is really a legend of initiation into the mysteries, and the "great fish" represents the darkness of ignorance which engulfs man when he is thrown over the side of the ship (is born) into the sea (life. the custom of building ships in the form of fishes or birds, common in ancient times, could give rise to the story, and mayhap jonah was merely picked up by click to enlarge the first incarnation, or matsya avatar, of vishnu. from picart's religious ceremonials. the fish has often been associated with the world saviors. vishnu, the hindu redeemer, who takes upon

am of the christians. the mysterious greek name of jesus, icqus, means "a fish" the fish was accepted as a symbol of the christ by a number of early canonized church fathers. st. augustine likened the christ to a fish that had been broiled, and it was also pointed out that the flesh of that fish was the food of righteous and holy men. p. 86 another vessel and carried into port, the pattern of the ship causing it to be called a "great fish("veritatis simplex oratio est) more probably the "whale" of jonah is based upon the pagan mythological creature, hippocampus, part horse and part dolphin, for the early christian statues and carvings show the composite creature and not a true whale. it is reasonable to suppose that the mysterious sea serpents, which, according to the mayan and toltec lege

side views of the scarab, and b and b the under surface with the name of men-ka-ra within the central cartouche. p. 87 its wings, which stretch out as glorious colors on each side of its body--the solar globe--and that when it folds its wings under its dark shell at sunset, night follows. khepera, the scarab-headed aspect of ra, is often symbolized riding through the sea of the sky in a wonderful ship called the boat of the sun. the scorpion is the symbol of both wisdom and self-destruction. it was called by the egyptians the creature accursed; the time of year when the sun entered the sign of scorpio marked the beginning of the rulership of typhon. when the twelve signs of the zodiac were used to represent the twelve apostles (although the reverse is true, the scorpion was assigned to jud

MEANING OF MASONRY

h them were more than abstractions and ethical sentiments; as the word itself implies they involved positive valours and virility of soul. temperance involved complete control of the passional nature under every circumstance; fortitude, the courage that no adversity will dismay or deflect from the goal in view; prudence, the deep insight that begets the prophetic or forward-seeing faculty of seer-ship (providentia; justice, unswerving righteousness of thought and action* the" arts and sciences" were called" liberal" because they tended to liberate the soul from defects and illusions normally enslaving it, thus totally differing from science i n the modern sense, the tendency of which is, as we know, mater ialistic and soul-benumbing. grammar, logic and rhetoric with the ancients were disci

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

mber outof the midst of the fire (ezekiel 4:5)and it came to pass, as moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, andstood at the door of the tabernacle, and the lord talked with moses. and all the people sawthe cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped,every man in his tent door (exodus 33:9)then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the landwhither they went (john 6: 21) earths first deluge10atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation and from the ancient aryans and hindus we have:he boarded the aerial vehicle with khara which was decorated with jewels and the faces ofdemons and it moved with noise resembling the sonorous clouds. so ravana and maricha boarded the aerial vehicle r

d lifetimes and couldmaintain the same form for many hundreds of years. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation17 old world disorder in prehistory, most tribes were predominately of the matriarchal type, which is why allbronze age villages were circular in design. even the later concept of the arthurianround table indicates the idea that no one man is head and that kingship (sic, kin-ship) arises from the camaraderie and collaboration of all, not the ego driven, auto-cratic travesties of later periods. in many cultures the dead warriors were buried in cir-cular cairns or mounds called sidhes (pronounced she. this word connotes femalebreast and the burial chambers actually look like such from outside. the implication isthat the dead are placed again inside the womb, the breast

er for what is left to feed on. brother slays brother, mighty battles occur in theworld. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation39 the world falls dead their adversarial presence was termed the midgard serpent: the midgard serpent blows so much poison that the whole sky and sea are splattered with it. strange flying craft bringing destruction are described: the mighty flood frees the ship known as naglfar, a vessel that the giants were so long inbuildingloki steers the ship of hel with the fenris wolf aboard.they also speak specifically of ragnarok, the war between the gods: the head of mimir (fountain of all wisdom, counsels odin to meet on the field of vigrid, andto wage there such a war that the power of evil would be destroyed forever, even though hisown world would be des

fuller) and again, from the horses mouth: the older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread,enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. under a scientific dictatorship, educationwill really workmost men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will neverdream of revolution. there seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictator-ship should ever be overthrown (aldous huxley, brave new world revisited) investigations into the beginnings of religion have accumulated steadily throughout the pasthalf-century. it is only by great efforts of censorship, by sectarian education of an elabo-rately protected sort, and the like, that ignorance about them is maintained (h. g. wells,the fate of homo sapiens. the conscious and intellig

d celestial cataclysms they had experienced or heardabout, had no choice but to concede to the new world order of their times.by the invincible power of traditional subservience, the inertia of the general mind,enhanced by the gullibility of ignorance, the masses have slipped under the force of a victim-ization that is both pitiable and tragic. the forces of religion have thus exerted their ruler-ship over a vast segment of humanity and virtually provided the masses with theirconventional ideas and concepts as to the meaning of the world ordeal (alvin boyd kuhn,ultimate canon of knowledge)religious thought has detached itself from nature and searches in the illimitable areas offeeling, thought, and wonder for what understanding these may yield it. with no guides,checks, clues or competent

represented as a winged serpent.egyptwhen we turn to egypt, we find that their whole religion was constructed upon legends relating to theages of fire and ice, and the victory of the sun-god over the evil-one. we find everywhere a recollectionof the days of cloud (p. 233)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation195 appendix b: book abstracts the russiansin the russian legends, a golden ship sails across the heavenly sea; it breaks into fragments, which nei-ther princes nor people can put together again.serpent worshipalways associated with the finding of precious metals like gold and silver. associated with fortune andintellectual knowledge and with physical power. in peru, the god of riches was worshipped under theimage of a rattlesnake (p. 266)the peruvians chose as their arms

great distance, butthe oats remained standing. when a quantity of people came running out to see them, they went on withtheir mowing (p. 185)black ridersthere appeared so many black riders that the opinion was prevalent that the turks were making araid, but who rapidly disappeared again, and thereupon a raging plague broke out in the neighborhood.(p. 185)when the cholera broke out on her majestys ship britannia in the black sea in 1854, several of theofficers and men asserted positively that, immediately prior to the outbreak, a curious mist swept upfrom the sea and passed over the ship. the mist had barely cleared the vessel when the first case of dis-ease was announced (p. 190)there were also frequent reports of loud noises in the sky, or rumblings.a huge blazing star was seen in the sky

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

oaded with various animals. as the flood waters began to diminish, tezpi sent out a vulture to assess whether the boat could be disembarked. the vulture did not return, nor did some other birds tezpi released. finally, he released a hummingbird, which did return with a branch in its mouth, confirming for tezpi the presence of dry land. tezpi, his family, and a multitude of animals depart from the ship and repopulate the earth. in the popol vuh, the sacred stories of the mayans, the great god created humans by carving them from wood. but soon humanity lost the grace of the creator because they had forgotten him, so he sent a huge flood to consume disobedient humanity. only a single couple, dubbed the great father and mother, survived this cataclysm to repopulate the earth. the chibca people

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

vised me to enter the hospital where he could force labor, it was immediately after delivery that i had a severe hemorrhage and the doctor had a difficult` time controlling it. i was aware of what was, happening as, having been a nurse myself, i realized the danger. at this time, i lost consciousness, and heard an annoying buzzing, ringing sound. the next thing i knew it seemed as if i were on; a ship or a small vessel sailing to the other side of a large body of water. on the distant shore, i could see all of my loved ones who had died, my mother, my father, my sister, and others. i could see them, could see their faces, just as they were when i knew them on earth. they seemed to be beckoning me to come on over, and all the while i was saying "no, no, i'm not ready to join you. i don't wa

t ready to go" now, this was the strangest experience because all this time i could see all the doctors and nurses, too, as they worked on my body, but it seemed as if i were a spectator rather than that person- that body-they were working on- was trying so hard to get through to my doctor "i'm not going to die" but no one could hear me. everything- the doctors, the nurses, the delivery room, the ship, the water, and the far shore was just sort of a conglomerate. it was all together, as if one scene were superimposed right on top of the other. finally, the ship almost reached the far shore, but just before it did, it turned around and started back. i did finally get through to my doctor, and i was saying "i'm not going to die" it was at this point, i guess, that i came around, and the doct

MORALS AND DOGMA

his own blows. the blind force of the people is a force that must be economized, and also managed, as the blind force of steam, lifting the ponderous iron arms and turning the large wheels, is made to bore and rifle the cannon and to weave the most delicate lace. it must be regulated by intellect. intellect is to the people and the people's force, what the slender needle of the compass is to the ship--its soul, always counselling the huge mass of wood and iron, and always pointing to the north. to attack the citadels built up on all sides against the human race by superstitions, despotisms, and prejudices, the force must have a brain and a law. then its deeds of daring produce permanent results, and there is real progress. then there are sublime conquests. thought is a force, and philosop

horse, causes his lameness, and, he stumbling, the career of his world-conquering rider ends, and the destinies of empires are changed. a generous officer permits an imprisoned monarch to end his game of chess before leading him to the block; and meanwhile the usurper dies, and the prisoner reascends the throne. an unskillful workman repairs the compass, or malice or stupidity disarranges it, the ship mistakes her course, the waves swallow a caesar, and a new chapter is written in the history of a world. what we call accident is but the adamantine chain of indissoluble connection between all created things. the locust, hatched in the arabian sands, the small worm that destroys the cotton-boll, one making famine in the orient, the other closing the mills and starving the workmen and their c

copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. but the images of men's genius and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages; so that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illumination, and inventions, the one of the other" to learn, to attain knowledge, to be

lest improvement. that which we do in our intervals of relaxation, our church-going, and our book-reading, are especially designed to prepare our minds for the _action_ of life. we are to hear and read and meditate, that we may _act_ well; and the _action_ of life is itself the great field for spiritual improvement. there is no task of industry or business, in field or forest, on the wharf or the ship's deck, in the office or the exchange, but has spiritual ends. there is no care or cross of our daily labor, but was especially ordained to nurture in us patience, calmness, resolution, perseverance, gentleness, disinterestedness, magnanimity. nor is there any tool or implement of toil, but is a part of the great spiritual instrumentality. all the relations of life, those of parent, child, br

llower of penn sought a refuge and a resting-place beyond the ocean, the great oak still stood, firm-rooted, vigorous, stately, haughtily domineering over all the forest, heedless of all the centuries that had hurried past since the wild indian planted the little acorn in the forest--a stout and hale old tree, with wide circumference shading many a rood of ground; and fit to furnish timbers for a ship, to carry the thunders of the great republic's guns around the world. and yet, if one had sat and watched it every instant, from the moment when the feeble shoot first pushed its way to the light until the eagles built among its branches, he would never have seen the tree or sapling _grow. many long centuries ago, before the chald an shepherds watched the stars, or shufu built the pyramids, o

abor is a more beneficent ministration than man's ignorance comprehends, or his complainings will admit. even when its end is hidden from him, it is not mere blind drudgery. it is all a training, a discipline, a development of energies, a nurse of virtues, a school of improvement. from the poor boy who gathers a few sticks for his mother's hearth, to the strong man who fells the oak or guides the ship or the steam-car, every human toiler, with every weary step and every urgent task, is obeying a wisdom far above his own wisdom, and fulfilling a design far beyond his own design. the great law of human industry is this: that industry, working either with the hand or the mind, the application of our powers to some task, to the achievement of some result, lies at the foundation of all human im

when taurus opened the year, corresponded with a season remarkable for its great heat. next comes gemini, the twins, two human figures, in the heads of which are the bright stars castor and pollux, the dioscuri, and the cabiri of samothrace, patrons of navigation; while south of pollux are the brilliant stars sirius and procyon, the greater and lesser dog: and still further south, canopus, in the ship argo. sirius is apparently the largest and brightest star in the heavens. when the vernal equinox was in taurus, he rose heliacally, that is, just before the sun, when, at the summer solstice, the sun entered leo, about the 21st of june, fifteen days previous to the swelling of the nile. the heliacal rising of canopus was also a precursor of the rising of the nile. procyon was the forerunner

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

revious six months, representing horus, took the place of the retiring hierophant, who had represented osiris. the "general allusion" is nothing of the sort. this verse is a categorical statement, to be taken in the most objective way by any aspirant to initiation. all the rituals, words and signs of past initiatic orders are abrogate. you must not 1 et yourself be conned by any of them. see "the ship. asar and isa are one, that is, they are different forms of the same formula, the central formula of the minor mysteries. the difference between their rites is simply a matter of psychological convenience. see liber 175, verse 2, for this important point "let asar be the adorant. in our system, the candidate presents himself before horus, to invoke him, under the paraphernalia of asar. if the

t his theologians, divining his nature, declare him? shall not even those who but sweep the courts of his temple, partake thereby of his person? and shall not our science lay hands on him, measure him, discover the depths, calculate the heights, and decipher the laws of his nature? also: to us of thelema, thus having trained our hearts and minds to be expert engineers of the sky-cleaver love, the ship to soar to the sun, to us the act of love is the consecration of the body to love. we burn the body on the altar of love, that even the brute may serve the will of the soul. we must then study the art of bodily love. we must not balk or bungle. we must be cool and competent as surgeons; brain, eye and hand the perfectly trained instruments of will. we must study the subject openly and imperso

ot sharing in their light and liberty; nay, thou art mother and whore for thine own pleasure; the word i say to man i say to thee no less: do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law! ay, priest, ay, lawyer, ay, censor! will ye not gather in secret once again, if in your hoard of juggler's tricks there be not one untried, or in your cunning and counsel one device new-false to save your pirate ship from sinking? it has always been so easy up to now! what is the blasting magick in that word, first thesis of the book of the law, that "every woman is a star? alas! it is i the beast that roared that word so loud, and wakened beauty. your tricks, your drowsy drugs, your lies, your hypnotic passes- they will not serve you. make up your minds to be free men, fearless as i, fit mates for women

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

nd heroes, who taught them to work in metals, to build houses, and other useful arts of civilization. but the human race became in the course of time so degenerate that the gods resolved to destroy all mankind by means of a flood; page 22 deucalion [22](son of prometheus) and his wife pyrrha, being, on account of their piety, the only mortals saved. by the command of his father, deucalion built a ship, in which he and his wife took refuge during the deluge, which lasted for nine days. when the waters abated the ship rested on mount othrys in thessaly, or according to some on mount parnassus. deucalion and his wife now consulted the oracle of themis as to how the human race might be restored. the answer was, that they were to cover their heads, and throw the bones of their mother behind the

cted. it now became necessary to choose ministers, who would offer up sacrifices, interpret his prophecies to the people, and take charge of the temple. looking round, he saw in the far distance a vessel bound from crete to the [73]peloponnesus, and determined to avail himself of her crew for his service. assuming the shape of an enormous dolphin, he agitated the waters to such a degree, that the ship was tossed violently to and fro, to the great alarm of the mariners; at the same time he raised a mighty wind, which drove the ship into the harbour of crissa, where she ran aground. the terrified sailors dared not set foot on shore; but apollo, under the form of a vigorous youth, stepped down to the vessel, revealed himself in his true character, and informed them that it was he who had driv

well where scylla was bathing, which had the effect of metamorphosing her into a monster of terrible aspect, having twelve feet, six heads with six long necks, and a voice which resembled the bark of a dog. this awful monster is said to have inhabited a cave at a very great height in the famous rock which still bears her name,[38] and was supposed to swoop down from her rocky eminence upon every ship that passed, and with each of her six heads to secure a victim. amphitrite is often represented assisting poseidon in attaching the sea-horses to his chariot [105] the cyclops, who have been already alluded to in the history of cronus, were the sons of poseidon and amphitrite. they were a wild race of gigantic growth, similar in their nature to the earth-born giants, and had only one eye each

the pilot, who was the first to perceive the miracle, called upon his companions to restore the youth carefully to the spot whence they had taken him, assuring them that he was a god, and that adverse winds and storms would, in all probability, result from their impious conduct. but, refusing to part with their prisoner, they set sail for the open sea. suddenly, to the alarm of all on board, the ship stood still, masts and sails were covered with clustering vines and wreaths of ivy-leaves, streams of fragrant wine inundated the vessel, and heavenly strains of music were heard around. the terrified crew, too late repentant, crowded round the pilot for protection, and entreated him to steer for the shore. but the hour of retribution had arrived. dionysus assumed the form of a lion, whilst b

als of this name, the lesser and the greater panathenaa. the former was held annually, and the latter, which lasted several days, was celebrated every fourth year. for the greater panathenaa a garment, embroidered with gold, called the peplus, was specially woven by athenian maidens, on which was represented the victory gained by athene over the giants. this garment was suspended to the mast of a ship which stood outside the city; and during the festival, which was characterized by a grand procession, the ship (with the peplus on its mast) was impelled forward by means of invisible machinery, and formed the most conspicuous feature of the pageant. the whole population, bearing olive branches in their hands, took part in the procession; and amidst music and rejoicings this imposing pageant

welcome intruder. jason accordingly began to arrange his plans without delay, and invited the young heroes whose friendship he [216]had formed whilst under the care of chiron, to join him in the perilous expedition. none refused the invitation, all feeling honoured at being allowed the privilege of taking part in so noble and heroic an undertaking. jason now applied to argos, one of the cleverest ship-builders of his time, who, under the guidance of pallas-athene, built for him a splendid fifty-oared galley, which was called the argo, after the builder. in the upper deck of the vessel the goddess had imbedded a board from the speaking oak of the oracle of zeus at dodona, which ever retained its powers of prophecy. the exterior of the ship was ornamented with magnificent carvings, and the w

le of zeus at dodona, which ever retained its powers of prophecy. the exterior of the ship was ornamented with magnificent carvings, and the whole vessel was so strongly built that it defied the power of the winds and waves, and was, nevertheless, so light that the heroes, when necessary, were able to carry it on their shoulders. when the vessel was completed, the argonauts (so called after their ship) assembled, and their places were distributed by lot. jason was appointed commander-in-chief of the expedition, tiphys acted as steersman, lynceus as pilot. in the bow of the vessel sat the renowned hero heracles; in the stern, peleus (father of achilles) and telamon (the father of ajax the great. in the inner space were castor and pollux, neleus (the father of nestor, admetus (the husband of

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

at i am at sea, there is no place i can land where i will not be killed or captured. so i ask you to lend me your brother knights and men at arms who will come sail with me. when we are far from here, they will lead me as if i were a templar until i am back in my own country" the grand master told him he would do so gladly, and he secretly summoned his knights and men at arms and had them board a ship. the king took leave of count henry, the templars, and those native of that land and boarded the ship. during the evening he boarded the templar ship and took his leave of his wife and her retinue. they sailed off in one direction, and the others continued off in another direction."11 these close ties between the templars and richard the lionheart (who did not hesitate to don templar dress, w

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

n of odin, descending to the underworld on odin s eight-legged steed sleipnir to try to rescue his brother balder, who had been slain through the treachery of the god loki. hel agreed to let balder go if all the world wept for him; but loki refused. as a result, the gods hunted loki down and tied him up in torment but at ragnarok, loki will break loose, and lead the hordes of the dead to war in a ship made from dead men s nails. the creation 12 the creation in the beginning, egyptian myth tells us, there was nothing but the dark endless ocean of nun. all the elements of life were in the ocean, inert and senseless. then the lord without limit came into being, and called himself re. he was alone. with his breath he created shu, the air, and with his spittle he created tefnut, moisture, and s

is half-brother pelias, was brought up by the centaur cheiron (see p. 39. when he grew up, he went to his uncle s court to press his claim to the throne. pelias, warned to beware a claimant wearing one sandal (as jason did, see left, agreed to name him as his heir if he fetched him the golden fleece belonging to ae tes, the cruel king of colchis. with the help of athena (roman minerva) he built a ship, the argo, and and gathered a crew of 50 or so, the argonauts, which included many of cheiron s ex-pupils. he then sailed to colchis, where ae tes daughter, the witch medea, fell in love with him and helped him to steal the fleece and escape. returning home, medea murdered pelias, but strangely jason did not claim the throne. instead the couple lived in corinth for ten years until jason rejec

rmes, who first advised phrixus to sacrifice the golden ram to zeus (see above) stands behind medea. jason and the golden fleece 53 the golden fleece by herbert james draper (1864 1920) this painting shows jason, medea, and the crew of the argo fleeing from king ae tes, medea s father, after stealing the golden fleece. jason, holding the fleece, gesticulates to the enemy. half the crew defend the ship, while the rest row for their lives and arrange the sails. medea (center) is preparing to kill and cut up her young brother, whose pieces she will scatter into the sea to delay her father. defending the ship when he reached the argo with his prize, jason instructed his crew to set sail immediately. half the crew were to row for all they were worth, two to a bench, and the other half to protec

d minos as his heir. when he became king, minos prepared an altar to poseidon and prayed for a bull to emerge from the sea to be sacrificed. a beautiful white bull promptly appeared, but it was so handsome that minos took it for himself, and sacrificed a lesser animal in its stead. poseidon was furious and to avenge this slight made minos s wife, pasipha, fall in love with the white bull. tribute ship the black ship of mourning comes into harbor with the tribute of seven youths and seven maidens, demanded by king minos every nine years from the subjugated city of athens. royal sisters ariadne and phaedra were the two daughters of minos and pasipha. their brothers included androgeus and glaucus. it was in payment for the athenians murder of androgeus that minos required the tribute of youth

ne end to the entrance and tracing the winding paths of the labyrinth, theseus could find his way out again. thread theseus and the minota ur by the master of the campana cassoni this wooden panel depicts theseus arrival in crete and his meeting with the royal princesses; ariadne giving him the reel of thread to help him; his success in killing the minotaur, and his departure with ariadne but the ship still carries black sails of mourning, anticipating the end of the story. the labyrinth t he labyrinth was named after the cretan double-headed ritual ax, the labrys. it may be that such an ax was used in the lost cretan religious mysteries to which the minotaur story must relate. the maze is clearly a plan of the underworld, to which the hero (theseus) must descend with the help of the maide

on the way the first with circe, an enchantress who had turned his crew into pigs, and the second with the sea nymph calypso, with whom he stayed for seven years before his longing for his home and wife moved the gods to pity. unbeknown to poseidon, athena (minerva) and the other gods helped odysseus build a raft and sail for home; but when poseidon discovered this he was enraged and wrecked the ship. odysseus was washed ashore where he was discovered by nausicaa, daughter of alcinous, king of the phaeacians, who at the cost of himself provoking poseidon s anger helped odysseus home to ithaca. odysseus and the sirens by herbert james draper (1864-1920) this painting shows odysseus and his crew as they sail past the island of the sirens, whose irresistible song lured sailors to their doom

rt james draper (1864-1920) this painting shows odysseus and his crew as they sail past the island of the sirens, whose irresistible song lured sailors to their doom. on circe s advice the crew stuffed their ears with beeswax so that they could not hear the false promises embodied in their seductive chant. odysseus, wishing to hear their song, was lashed to the mast so that he could not leave the ship. lashed to the mast odysseus alone heard the sirens song for he had asked his crew to tie him to the mast so that he could listen to it. tightening the knots when odysseus heard the sirens voices, he longed to join them, and begged his crew to untie him; but they obeyed his previous orders, and lashed him tighter still. the man tightening the ropes is eurylochus, odysseus s brother-in-law. od

PROMETHEUS

hole race of man was fashioned by prometheus -pausanias 10.4.4 and now the last recess of the black sea opened up and they [the argonauts] caught sight of the high crags of the kaukasos, where prometheus stood chained by every limb to the hard rock with fetters of bronze, and fed an eagle on his liver. the bird kept eagerly returning to its feed. they saw it in the afternoon flying high above the ship with a strident whirr. it was near the clouds, yet it made all their canvas quiver to its wings as it beat by. for its form was not that of an ordinary bird: the long quill-feathers of each wing rose and fell like a bank of polished oars. soon after the eagle had passed, they heard prometheus shriek in agony as it pecked at his liver. the air rang with his screams till at length they saw the

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

dy girsah surface study, is the understanding of the subject at first glance, without stopping to delve into its details with any great scrutiny or analysis. in talmud study, this is used mainly to cover much ground and gain a broad familiarization with the subject matter. however, since it does not involve in-depth investigation, the knowledge gained is inherently shallow. this is analogous to a ship sailing on the surface of the ocean, rather than a submarine which submerges into its very depths. it is similar to one who casually glances at an object he is unfamiliar with, without scrutinizing it carefully in his mind, to understand what it is and how it is. he makes no attempt to understand its depth by examining all its inner and external components, but, rather, takes it at face value

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 2

dy girsah surface study, is the understanding of the subject at first glance, without stopping to delve into its details with any great scrutiny or analysis. in talmud study, this is used mainly to cover much ground and gain a broad familiarization with the subject matter. however, since it does not involve in-depth investigation, the knowledge gained is inherently shallow. this is analogous to a ship sailing on the surface of the ocean, rather than a submarine which submerges into its very depths. it is similar to one who casually glances at an object he is unfamiliar with, without scrutinizing it carefully in his mind, to understand what it is and how it is. he makes no attempt to understand its depth by examining all its inner and external components, but, rather, takes it at face value

RABBI MOSHE WISNEFSKY APPLES FROM THE ORCHARD THE ARIZAL ON THE PARASHAH

as is explained in the zohar,22 would the mother and father merit, they would be able to see [their child fs gimage h] when they copulate [and conceive the child, the nefesh when it is born, the ruach when it turns thirteen, and the neshamah when it turns twenty. jonah.that is, the soul.descends [from its source, enters z feir anpin, descends via his spinal cord, enters his body.symbolized by the ship.and from there descends to the thighs, represented by the lower parts of the ship. the child fs father is the earthly representative of z feir anpin; his mother is the earthly representative of nukva. the soul fs journey through his future father is the process by which the spiritual soul becomes invested in the physical seed. the idiom in hebrew for gthe lower parts h of the ship is gthe thi

there descends to the thighs, represented by the lower parts of the ship. the child fs father is the earthly representative of z feir anpin; his mother is the earthly representative of nukva. the soul fs journey through his future father is the process by which the spiritual soul becomes invested in the physical seed. the idiom in hebrew for gthe lower parts h of the ship is gthe thighs h of the ship. then it meets the large fish, signifying yesod, which swallows it up, and from there, it is given to the female. the three days and three nights jonah was inside the fish correspond to the three days it takes for the male seed to be properly absorbed [into the womb. this [feminine] gshadow h [mentioned above] is strength, meaning the states of gevurah, as we have explained [these states of g

explained. as we explained above, netzach and hod are the supernal legs that walk on the [supernal] ground, which is malchut. when we walk outside the [sabbath] boundary, we cause these supernal legs to go out into [the domain of] evil. this is the mystical meaning of the prohibition of [traversing] the sabbath boundary. now, we know that the prohibition of sabbath boundaries does not apply to a ship sailing in the sea [and it is permitted to be a passenger on a wind-powered boat] on the sabbath even if a person will thereby travel many miles. the reason for this given in the talmud1 is that the prohibition against [traveling beyond] the sabbath boundary does not apply above a height of ten handbreadths, and the seasurface is higher than ten handbreadths [above the seabed. the mystical ex

t [netzach and hod] are treading on the [supernal] ground [malchut. the prohibition of [traversing] the boundary therefore applies. but in the sabbatical year, malchut does not ascend together with them, for they ascend to the level of chesed-gevurah-tiferet while she remains below in their [former] level. thus, the supernal legs are not treading on her. this is exactly similar to the case of the ship described above, in which travel [beyond the boundary] is permitted, since the prohibition does not apply above ten handbreadths. this, then, is the mystical meaning of the verse describing the sabbatical year, gand the ground will rest, a sabbath for g-d [havayah. h gthe ground h signifies malchut. it rests by itself [a rest] similar to [that of] the sabbath, and by itself causes feminine wa

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

to cups which are quite empty. above and below are the symbols of the decanate, venus and scorpio. possibly victory, but neutralized by the supineness of the person. illusionary success. deception in the moment of apparent victory. lying error, promises unfulfilled. drunkenness, wrath, vanity, lust, fornication, violence against women. selfish dissipation. deception in love and friendbook 't" 557 ship. often success gained, but not followed up. modified by dignity. netzach of heh (lying. promises unfulfilled. illusion. error. deception, slight success at outset, but want of energy to retain it) therein rules melchel and chahaviah. mercury in sagittarius, 1"-10. xxxl11. the lord of swiftness. 8 of wands four white angelic hands radiating (two proceeding from each side) issuing from clouds

the celestial heavens from the ecliptic to 45' of south latitude 65. fortitude. rules the whole of leo, from the point of regulus or cor leonis. stars. the fore-legs and hind-feet of leo, greater part of the sextans and of crater, the cups, part of the body of hydra, the great water ser <226> pent, greater part of antlia pneumatics, the air pump, greater part of pyxis nautica, a small part of the ship argo. 66. hermit or prophet. rules the whole of virgo. stars. left arm, hand, and arm of virgo, and her ear of corn; part of the body of hydra, corvus, the crow, part of crater, tail and right hand of cent a u r t he, man-horse, small part of air-pump and of argo. 68. justice. rules the whole of libra. stars. part of the south scale of libra, tail of hydra, head, body, armsand forefeet of cen

part of cancer. the whole of monoceros, the unicorn, except the hind-quarters. head and forepart of canis major, the greater dog. 64. the chariot. rules the whole of cancer up to regulus in leo. stars. one claw and part of the body of cancer, forepaws of leo, head and part of hydra, part of sextans, part of pyxis nautica, hind legs and tail of monoceros, part of the mast, rigging, and prow of the ship argo. note: the keys answering unto the seven lords who wander (planets) and the three spirits (the elements) are not assigned any fixed dominion. the following 36 small cards (2's to 10's) rule the decans of the signs in the celestial heavens and their dominion extendeth from 45" south of the ecliptic unto makuth at the southern pole. 21 5 of wands 22 6 of wands 23 7 of wands 24 8 of pentacl

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

the muraenas, contrary to all laws, are all the feminine sex, yet they copulate and reproduce and multiply their offspring from a different kind of seed. for often snakes come together along the shore where they are .and they make the sound of pleasing hissing and, calling out the muraenas, join with them according to custom. it is also remarkable that the remora, half a foot long, holds fast the ship to which it adheres at sea just as though it were fast aground, and does not permit the vessel to move until it lets go; because of this power it is to be feared. and that which they call the swordfish, because it does injury with its sharp beak, people often fear to approach with a ship when it is swimming, for if it is captured it at once makes a hole in the vessel, cuts it in pieces, and s

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not apply to this pair of opposites. polarity: many scientists and philosophers will claim that time is unidirectional, that motion through time can only proceed in a forward direction. most normal people would agree. some scientists and philosophers feel that time can be reversed, or may be reversed in certain physical environments (such as on the other side of the big bang cycle, or on a space ship travelling faster than light. magical time travel through e.c.i. and astral travel may be possible. time may even be cyclic, with short or long cycles (a long cycle perhaps stretching from one big bang to another. we'll therefore not yet attempt to propose a polarity. objectivity: time appears to be objective- change either takes place or it doesn't. the speed of time may be subjective, and t

ut it does not, for look you, graydon, we march beside our sun among an army of other stars, some it must be with their own circling worlds. beyond this are other armies of suns, marching like ours through space. earth cannot be the only place in all the universes upon which is life. and if time be- then it must stretch backward as well as forward into infinitude well, in all illimitable time, no ship from any other world has cast anchor upon ours, no argosy has sailed between the stars bearing tidings that life is elsewhere- the face in the abyss the serpent-woman of the face in the abyss has identified a problem: none return to tell us. or do they? is the soul a thing which moves through the centuries unchanged? is my own an ancient priest of set from that first temple in the dust that w

; formidable prince of darkness, prince of the underworld, master of demons, i, jinni bast, magistra templi in the temple of set, command every force of darkness to instill my being with their infernal powers. hail set, fount and provider of all magical power! i come forth by night and stretch forth my will through the darkness of the angles to seek out and unite with the will of set, with friend-ship and joy! hail set, prince of darkness, come forth by night; open wide the gates through the angles of magical dimensions and greet me as your friend and sister. you have sought me, and i, in turn, seek thee. classification: v5- a81.3- 1 author: jinni bast iv date: june 21, xvi, 12:30 a.m. edt, june 20, xvi, 9:30 p.m. pdt (1) reading list: hail set, source of the black flame, hear me, come tho

dditions) create my version of the world around me. 8.freely inviting and being open and able to learn from any of my experiences (even if painful and difficult) which can help me understand and become aware of how severe a hold these lower planes have on a relaxed will. only through this understanding can i employ consciously my will to integrate (center) myself and truly be the master of my own ship. step 2: i must learn to experience the eternal now by understanding that: 9.i have everything i need to enjoy and understand the now. 10.i must take full responsibility for my own programming that creates my reactions (rather than responses) and brings about reactions of others around me. 11.i must accept myself completely and consciously experience everything as a vital step in my growth. s

f self. 4. paz detachment and observation 'umr at-tawil, the prolonged of life. the red magus. immortality and the ordering of one's own self by an act of will. the establishing of boundaries. 3. zom the inferno of annihilating the exterior universe, followed by re-creation. the black flame turning red. the vision of leviathan. the absolute. 2. arn looking in at the universe from the outside. the ship of a million years. travelling and interacting on one's own terms, without any outside ties. 1. lil immortal, eternal and becoming. the outsider. the eternal quest. aethyr 10- zax sunday 2nd january xxix aes, 1:25 a.m. i experienced no perceptions of this as a particularly "accursed" aethyr, as 666 describes it, although for reasons i shall refer to later in this write-up, it may be deemed re

ess according to the magical will, an act of re-creation. as leviathan is the absolute, so must the magician become, unto himself. aethyr 2- arn saturday 5th march xxix aes, 1:44 a.m. i stood outside the universe, looking in, beyond the expanding borders of the cosmic order. then i was standing upon a boat, a bark of egyptian design. anubis was at the helm and set was enthroned in the centre. the ship of a million years. i recall the essay of that title by the secretary of the order of leviathan, james c. joyner, and his references to the tardis. for perhaps the first time, i really understand the significance of this fantastic vessel, its ability to be piloted to all places in all times, whilst itself being a part of none of them, but existing outside in its own self-sustaining dimension

perhaps the first time, i really understand the significance of this fantastic vessel, its ability to be piloted to all places in all times, whilst itself being a part of none of them, but existing outside in its own self-sustaining dimension, interfacing with the universe through its materialized shell, able to slip in and out of manifestation according to the will of its operator. even so, the ship of a million years, a thing from outside of space-time, sails serenely through the universe, responding to its helmsman's will. the mind of the black magician can reach out and focus anywhere, anytime, upon anything, perceiving it simultaneously from all possible angles, under will. my uniqueness and apartness now implicitly understood, i can behold and enjoy the universe fully as if for the

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warned, boarded a douglas d c-8 and journeyed into the west. ahead of him, england; beside him, his father, changez chamchawala; below him, home and beauty. like nasreen, the future saladin had never found it easy to cry. on that first aeroplane he read science fiction tales of interplanetary migration: asimov's _foundation, ray bradbury's _martian chronicles. he imagined the dc--8 was the mother ship, bearing the chosen, the elect of god and man, across unthinkable distances, travelling for generations, breeding eugenically, that their seed might one day take root somewhere in a brave new world beneath a yellow sun. he corrected himself: not the mother but the father ship, because there he was, after all, the great man, abbu, dad. thirteen-year--old salahuddin, setting aside recent doubts

ing aside recent doubts and grievances, entered once again his childish adoration of his father, because he had, had, had worshipped him, he was a great father until you started growing a mind of your own, and then to argue with him was called a betrayal of his love, but never mind that now _i accuse him of becoming my supreme being, so that what happened was like a loss of faith. yes, the father ship, an aircraft was not a flying womb but a metal phallus, and the passengers were spermatozoa waiting to be spilt. five and a half hours of time zones; turn your watch upside down in bombay and you see the time in london _my father, chamcha would think, years later, in the midst of his bitterness _i accuse him of inverting time. how far did they fly? five and a half thousand as the crow. or: fr

ther trails began: to the east and north--east, towards mesopotamia and the great persian empire. to petra and to palmyra, where once solomon loved the queen of sheba. those were fatted days. but now the fleets plying the waters around the peninsula have grown hardier, their crews more skilful, their navigational instruments more accurate. the camel trains are losing business to the boats. desert-ship and sea-ship, the old rivalry, sees a tilt in the balance of power. jahilia's rulers fret, but there is little they can do. sometimes abu simbel suspects that only the pilgrimage stands between the city and its ruin. the council searches the world for statues of alien gods, to attract new pilgrims to the city of sand; but in this, too, they have competitors. down in sheba a great temple has b

in an indefinable manner, naturalized. very few of these old zamindar houses had survived the egalitarian depredations of the present, and accordingly there hung over peristan something of the musty air of a museum, even though- or perhaps because- mirza saeed took great pride in the old place and had spent lavishly to keep it in trim. he slept under a high canopy of worked and beaten brass in a ship-like bed that had been occupied by three viceroys. in the grand salon he liked to sit with mishal and mrs. qureishi in the unusual three-way love seat. at one end of this room a colossal shiraz carpet stood rolled up, on wooden blocks, awaiting the glamorous reception which would merit its unfurling, and which never came. in the dining-room there were stout classical columns with ornate corin

efit the day the old fruit and vegetable market moved to nine elms. the authorities, worried about rats, had sealed the sewers and killed tens of thousands; but hundreds more survived "that day, starving rats swarmed out on to the pavements" he recalled "all the way down the strand and over waterloo bridge, in and out of the shops, desperate for food" gibreel snorted "now i know this is a sinking ship" he cried, and chamcha felt furious at having given him the opening "even the bloody rats are off" and, after a pause "what they needed was a pied piper, no? leading them to destruction with a tune" when he wasn't insulting the english or describing allie's body from the roots of her hair to the soft triangle of "the loveplace, the goddamn yoni" he seemed to wish to make lists: what were spoo

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ht of the gods- the dawn breaks in the east! it is the morning of magic! the world is afire! loki lives upon the earth! heil, loki! hail, loki! ave, satanas! participants: ave satanas! celebrant: rege satanas! participants: rege satanas! celebrant: heil, satan! participants: hail, satan! a night on bald mountain homage to tchort how much more precious to man is a small piece of bread than a large ship! but how much money is required for a ship! he that can understand, let him understand -grigory yefimovitch rasputin few scholars have explored the existence of devil worship in russia during the hundreds of years its pagan spirit was in thrall to the orthodox church. if questions were asked, the answer was invariably that russian black magic was either nonexistent or a discipline cloaked in

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

at the mind, not the wallet, is the path to contentment. time international (february 28, 2005: 47. web sites buddhanet. http//www.buddhanet.net (accessed on may 7, 2006. buddhism. religionfacts. http//www.religionfacts.com/buddhism/index.htm (accessed on may 7, 2006. friends of the western buddhist order. http//www.fwbo.org/index.html (accessed on may 7, 2006. introduction to buddhism. http//www.ship.edu/ cgboeree/buddhaintro.html (accessed on may 7, 2006. world religions: almanac 117 buddhism this page intentionally left blank 6 christianity christianity is a religion built on the life and words of jesus of nazareth (c. 6 bce c. 30 ce, also known as jesus christ. christianity is founded on the ideas of personal salvation (deliverance from sin) and eternal life for its followers. the bibl

ical story of the flood, in which noah is warned that god will destroy humankind and builds an ark to house two of each animal. all of them survive a flood of forty days and forty nights. another flood story is referenced in the ancient mesopotamian epic of gilgamesh. in this story the mesopotamian gods decide to destroy humankind, but utnapishtim is warned in advance and is able to build a great ship, on which he allowed humans and animals. the flood of the epic of gilgamesh is said to have lasted six days and seven nights. laws if a man wants to know the origin of states and societies, he should behold them from the point of view of time. thousands of cities have come into being and have passed away again in infinite ages, every one of them having had endless forms of government; and if

ted into english is e-u-nir (temple hymns. this is a collection of forty-two verses written or gathered by enheduanna. each verse is addressed to a different temple in sumer or akkad. more hymns to inanna are included in in-nin me-hus-a (inanna and ebih. fragments of verses and hymns are also found in two smaller collections, e-u-gim e-a (hymn of praise to ekishnugal and nanna on assumption of en-ship) and hymn of praise to enheduanna. in all of these collections, enheduanna identifies herself somewhere in the text as the priestess of nanna and the creator of the verses. thus, it was possible that the copyists simply attributed these verses to the same person incorrectly. later study of the texts, however, showed enough similarities to prove that they were all by the same person, enheduann

rage of gardner also did not please some of the other witches. gardner continued to work, publishing the meaning of witchcraft in 1959. the following year he was invited to buckingham palace, not, however, because of his work in witchcraft, but for his government service in the far east. gardner s wife died that same year. after a brief trip to lebanon for health reasons, gardner was returning by ship to england when he died of a heart attack on february 12, 1964. the captain of the ship was the only mourner at his funeral, and he was buried in tunis, the capital of tunisia, in africa. gardner had left his museum to the current high priestess of his coven, who, with world religions: biographies 141 gerald brousseau gardner her husband, continued to run it for a time. soon, however, they so

till considered him to be one of their own. he gave religious lessons to some of these nobles but would always sleep in their barns or in the houses of poor people. after many months of traveling ignatius decided to go to the holy land of jerusalem, where christ had lived and was crucified (killed by being nailed to a cross. once he made his way on foot to barcelona, spain, he was able to board a ship bound for italy and jerusalem, despite the fact that he had no money. ignatius had become like a wandering holy person, and people often gave him food and tried to help him. he did not stay long in jerusalem, as the city and region were under the control of muslims, followers of the religion of islam. ignatius was supposedly given a sign that he was on a divine mission when he attempted to re

like a wandering holy person, and people often gave him food and tried to help him. he did not stay long in jerusalem, as the city and region were under the control of muslims, followers of the religion of islam. ignatius was supposedly given a sign that he was on a divine mission when he attempted to return to italy and was refused passage on two ships. these ships later sank in a storm. a third ship finally took him back to venice, italy. ignatius, now thirty-three years old, decided that he wanted to study to become a priest in the catholic church. in order to do that, he first had at the beginning of his religious journey, ignatius of loyola gave up his military armor and sword in front of a statue of the virgin mary like the one pictured here. this signaled his new devotion to god. pu

a at the temple in udupi (krishna is regarded either as a god or as a godlike hero in hinduism and is worshipped as an incarnation, or form, of vishnu, the preserver god. all gods in hinduism are considered to be representations of the one god, brahma) according to legend a shipwreck took place off the coast near the town of malpe. madhva had a dream in which he saw an image of krishna aboard the ship that he felt had to be retrieved. he enlisted the help of local fishermen, dove into the sea, and rescued the image of krishna for the temple. madhva s religious views became popular throughout india, particularly in the south and west. many of the region s hindu saints followed his teachings, and some of his disciples became highly respected themselves. madhva wrote some thirty-seven books o

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

here, lone viola, or is the danger greater in thy unfound ideal? and now, as the overture to some strange and wizard spectacle, closes this opening prelude. wilt thou hear more? come with thy faith prepared. i ask not the blinded eyes, but the awakened sense. as the enchanted isle, remote from the homes of men "ove alcun legno rado, o non mai va dalle nostre sponde "ger.lib" cant. xiv. 69 (where ship seldom or never comes from our coasts) is the space in the weary ocean of actual life to which the muse or sibyl (ancient in years, but ever young in aspect, offers thee no unhallowed sail "quinci ella in cima a una montagna ascende disabitata, e d' ombre oscura e bruna; e par incanto a lei nevose rende le spalle e i fianchi; e sensa neve alcuna gli lascia il capo verdeggiante e vago; e vi fo

xtraordinary a cause. he roused himself with a sudden effort, and started to see, seated next him, a figure hideous enough to have personated one of the malignant beings of whom zanoni had spoken. it was a small man, dressed in a fashion strikingly at variance with the elaborate costume of the day: an affectation of homeliness and poverty approaching to squalor, in the loose trousers, coarse as a ship's sail; in the rough jacket, which appeared rent wilfully into holes; and the black, ragged, tangled locks that streamed from their confinement under a woollen cap, accorded but ill with other details which spoke of comparative wealth. the shirt, open at the throat, was fastened by a brooch of gaudy stones; and two pendent massive gold chains announced the foppery of two watches. the man's fi

rful cares and dangerous vigil. but during the night the child grew worse, the physician (the leechcraft has never been very skilful at naples) shook his powdered head, kept his aromatics at his nostrils, administered his palliatives, and departed. old bernardi seated himself by the bedside in stern silence; here was the last tie that bound him to life. well, let the anchor break and the battered ship go down! it was an iron resolve, more fearful than sorrow. an old man, with one foot in the grave, watching by the couch of a dying child, is one of the most awful spectacles in human calamities. the wife was more active, more bustling, more hopeful, and more tearful. viola took heed of all three. but towards dawn, beatrice's state became so obviously alarming, that viola herself began to des

ver beauty is comprehended, wherever the soul is sensible of a higher world than that in which matter struggles for crude and incomplete existence "but to make available those faculties, need i be a prophet to tell you that you must learn to concentre upon great objects all your desires? the heart must rest, that the mind may be active. at present you wander from aim to aim. as the ballast to the ship, so to the spirit are faith and love. with your whole heart, affections, humanity, centred in one object, your mind and aspirations will become equally steadfast and in earnest. viola is a child as yet; you do not perceive the high nature the trials of life will develop. pardon me, if i say that her soul, purer and loftier than your own, will bear it upward, as a secret hymn carries aloft the

ad of late so neglected his attentions behind the scenes, and she exhausted all her powers of panegyric upon the supposed object of the sigh "and then, too" she said "if nothing else were to be said against the other signor, it is enough that he is about to leave naples "leave naples! zanoni "yes, darling! in passing by the mole to-day, there was a crowd round some outlandish-looking sailors. his ship arrived this morning, and anchors in the bay. the sailors say that they are to be prepared to sail with the first wind; they were taking in fresh stores. they "leave me, gionetta! leave me" the time had already passed when the girl could confide in gionetta. her thoughts had advanced to that point when the heart recoils from all confidence, and feels that it cannot be comprehended. alone now

forever, gone with this dread stranger; darkness was round her lot! and he himself had decided her fate and his own! the boat bounded on, the soft waves flashed and sparkled beneath the oars, and it was along one sapphire track of moonlight that the frail vessel bore away the lovers. farther and farther from his gaze sped the boat, till at last the speck, scarcely visible, touched the side of the ship that lay lifeless in the glorious bay. at that instant, as if by magic, up sprang, with a glad murmur, the playful and freshening wind: and glyndon turned to mejnour and broke the silence "tell me if thou canst read the future tell me that her lot will be fair, and that her choice at least is wise "my pupil" answered mejnour, in a voice the calmness of which well accorded with the chilling wo

etimes we ran ashore and enjoyed ourselves like princes; sometimes we lay in a calm for days together on the loveliest sea that man ever traversed. and then, if the breeze rose and a sail came in sight, who so merry as we? i passed three years in that charming profession, and then, signor, i grew ambitious. i caballed against the captain; i wanted his post. one still night we struck the blow. the ship was like a log in the sea, no land to be seen from the mast-head, the waves like glass, and the moon at its full. up we rose, thirty of us and more. up we rose with a shout; we poured into the captain's cabin, i at the head. the brave old boy had caught the alarm, and there he stood at the doorway, a pistol in each hand; and his one eye (he had only one) worse to meet than the pistols were"'y

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

ldiers to war against himself. now as soon as nectanebus saw this, he understood that the end of the kingdom of egypt was at hand, for hitherto the gods had been wont to hold converse with him readily, and to lend him their help whenever he had need of it. he then quitted the chamber hastily, and having shaved off his hair and his beard, and disguised himself by putting on common apparel, be took ship and fled to pella in macedonia, where he established himself as a physician, and as an egyptian soothsayer. omitting, for the present, any reference to the contents of the ivth chapter of pseudo- callisthenes, in which the casting of the nativity of olympias by nectanebus is described, we come to the passage in which the story of the way in which he sent a dream p. 94 to the queen by means of

by means of a picture of herself which was hung up in it. when the merchant arrived in port he was so ill through the wound in his eye that he could not be moved, and it was found that a portion p. 103 of the arrow which had struck him remained embedded in it; and unless he could obtain the virgin's help speedily he felt that his death was nigh. in this difficulty a certain christian came to the ship and made a wax figure of the merchant, and, having stuck in one eye a model of the arrow which had struck him, carried the figure to the monastery, which was some miles off, and caused the monks to allow him to bring it nigh to the picture of the virgin. when this had been done, and prayers had been made to her, the figure of the virgin stretched out its hand, and straightway pulled the model

me miles off, and caused the monks to allow him to bring it nigh to the picture of the virgin. when this had been done, and prayers had been made to her, the figure of the virgin stretched out its hand, and straightway pulled the model of the arrow out of the eye of the wax figure of the merchant in such a way that no broken fragment remained behind. when the wax figure had been taken back to the ship, it was found that the piece of broken arrow had been extracted from the merchant's eye at the very moment when the virgin had drawn out the arrow from the eye of the wax figure. the merchant's eye then healed, and he recovered his sight. footnotes 67:1 ed. erman, pp. 7 and 8. 69:1 i.e, the priestly official who performed the most important of the funeral ceremonies; he was always a man of gr

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ere must here be a lacuna in the text] 93. the twenty-third said "i am called nefthada. i cause the reins to ache, and i bring about dysury. if any one write on a plate of tin the words 'iath th, uru l, nephthada' and fasten it round the loins, i at once retreat" 94. the twenty-fourth said "i am called akton. i cause ribs and lumbic muscles to ache. if one engrave on copper material, taken from a ship which has missed its anchorage, this 'marmara th, saba th, pursue akton' and fasten it round the loin, i at once retreat" 95. the twenty-fifth said "i am called anatreth, and i rend burnings and fevers into the entrails. but if i hear 'arara, charara' instantly do i retreat" 96. the twenty-sixth said "i am called enenuth. i steal away men's minds, and change their hearts, and make a man tooth

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s hands with plo leader yasser arafat as he covertly places his right hand in his coat, a sign to other initiates. powell is a 33rd degree mason and a council on foreign relations alumnus. the late arafat was also a member of the masonic lodge. rutherford b. hayes, president of the united states (1822-1893. 68 codex magica u.s.a. president teddy roosevelt, seen reviewing the troops onboard a navy ship, is giving the secret sign of the followers of the god, jahbuhlun. was it teddy who once said "speak softly and keep your hand well hid" or was that "speak softly and carry a big stick" hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 69 karl marx, the jewish radical who inspired lenin and trotsky with his communist theories, was secretly a high priest of satan (see richard wurmbrand's book, marx and sata

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arrell experienced being a crew member on the titanic, which sank after striking an iceberg in the middle of the atlantic ocean in april 1912. he was asleep in his bunk when the crisis began. he was awakened and told to go to the boiler room where he worked. it was flooded, so he went to the next available boiler room that was still free of seawater. he and his workmates did their best to get the ship moving, but it soon became evident that the huge ship was sinking. darrell s last memory in that lifetime was being tangled up in ropes as the ship began to lurch and dive into the depths of the sea. binder has had darrell undergo this particular regression on many different occasions, both as a demonstration before students and for television. each time, she has observed, darrell receives mo

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o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 10 ghosts and phantoms the hms eurydice, a 26-gun frigate that capsized and sank in sandown bay during a blizzard in 1878, is a famous phantom vessel that has been sighted by sailors over the years. on october 17, 1998, prince edward of england (1964) and the film crew for the television series crown and country saw the three-masted ship off the isle of wight and managed to capture its image on film. perhaps the most famous of all ghost ships is the flying dutchman, whose legend states that as punishment for his impiety and blasphemy, the captain, cornelius vanderdecken, must sail until doomsday. the appearance of this supernatural vessel is considered by seafarers to be an omen of ill-fortune. another one that is a forerunne

and managed to capture its image on film. perhaps the most famous of all ghost ships is the flying dutchman, whose legend states that as punishment for his impiety and blasphemy, the captain, cornelius vanderdecken, must sail until doomsday. the appearance of this supernatural vessel is considered by seafarers to be an omen of ill-fortune. another one that is a forerunner of disaster is the ghost ship of the yangtze river, a medieval chinese pirate junk. the ghost junk has been said to herald wars, famines, and the deaths of thousands. off of the chileo island, in south america, a ship apparition called the caleuche, is claimed to leave broken down boats and drowned men in its wake. on january 5, 1931, the ms tricouleur, with a cargo of chemicals, exploded and sank after leaving calcutta e

h america, a ship apparition called the caleuche, is claimed to leave broken down boats and drowned men in its wake. on january 5, 1931, the ms tricouleur, with a cargo of chemicals, exploded and sank after leaving calcutta en route to bombay. sailors off ceylon still report seeing her pass them before disappearing into the fog. inhabitants along bay chaleur of new brunswick, canada, sight a fire ship that has been appearing for more than a century. some theorize the ship was an immigrant vessel that sailed mistakenly into the bay instead of the gulf of st. lawrence. struck by lightning, it burned and ran aground at the mouth of the restigouche river. many new englanders claim to have seen another burning vessel, the palatine, a ship from holland that met with foul play during christmas we

ruck by lightning, it burned and ran aground at the mouth of the restigouche river. many new englanders claim to have seen another burning vessel, the palatine, a ship from holland that met with foul play during christmas week, 1752, and sunk off block island near the coast of rhode island. in his poem the palatine, john greenleaf whittier (1807 1892) made the unfortunate tragedy of the ill-fated ship a part of american literature. sources: rickard, bob, and john michell. unexplained phenomena. london: rough guides, 2000. spaeth, frank, ed. mysteries of the deep. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 1998. winer, richard. ghost ships: true stories of nautical nightmares, hauntings and disasters. new york: berkley publishing group, 2000. ghost ships admit that he was beginning to feel his

on questioning, he freely admitted witching tedworth s justice of the peace. he boasted that he had plagued him and that mompesson would have no peace until he had given him satisfaction for taking away his drum. mompesson had the drummer tried for witchcraft at sarum, and the man was condemned to be transported to one of the english colonies. certain stories have it that the man so terrified the ship s captain and crew by raising storms that they took him back to port and left him on the dock before sailing away again. witchcraft was a real thing to the people of 1663, and noisy hauntings were often recognized as the work of satan. while on board ship, drury had told the captain that he had been given certain books of the black arts by an old wizard, who had tutored him in the finer point

h a sea creature the likes of which they had never seen. unfurling her sails to catch what little wind there was, the monongahela managed to come alongside the capsized longboats and began to pick up the seamen who were bobbing in the water, fearing that the hideous beast might at any moment resurface and eat them. the rebecca sims, under the command of captain gavitt, pulled alongside her sister ship, and the crews of the two ships began discussing the strange monster that they had encountered. the next morning, the crewmen had pulled in only about half of the line when the massive carcass suddenly popped to the surface. it was much greater in length than the ship, which measured 100 feet from stem to stern, and it had a thick body that was about 50 feet in diameter. its color was a brown

ans attempt to trace the movements of the sun. nailing a horseshoe to the threshold of one s home helps to bring good fortune to the family. the horseshoe, tacked in place with three nails and the open end down, wards off evil. in the old days, sailors used to see to it that a horseshoe was nailed to the foremast of their vessels to keep witches and wizards from cursing the voyage or damaging the ship. some traditions prescribe the hanging of a horseshoe in the bedroom to prevent nightmares from invading one s sleep. if the horseshoe is tacked points upward, the sleeper s masculine powers will be increased. if the sleeper is female, her latent powers will be awakened if the points are facing downward. knocking on wood the old superstition of knocking on or touching wood to ensure continued

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of 15, she walked out the door of the convent school to which she had been sent and refused to return. at the age of 19, she married joanis vlachopoulos, a 32-year-old able seaman serving with the merchant navy. six months later, in the summer of 1941, her husband was reported missing. details are sketchy, but since world war ii was in progress, it is assumed that vlachopoulos was killed when his ship was destroyed by a nazi torpedo. in 1944, doreen married casimiro valiente. in the summer of 1952, the year after the witchcraft act of 1735 was repealed, doreen valiente met a witch of the new forest coven who introduced her to gerald brosseau gardner. on midsummer fs eve 1953, she received the first degree of initiation into wicca by gardner, who at that time was operating a witchcraft muse

were shocked to learn that their first lady was using the advice obtained from an astrologer to plan her husband fs dayto- day schedule, citizens of india seemed to accept calmly the fact that indira gandhi (1917.1984, prime minister from 1966 to 1977 and 1980 to 1984, used astrology to assist in decision-making until her death by assassination in 1984. many astrologers feel that the figure of a ship upon the ocean, with no visible paths to follow, no clearly defined turns or alternative routes, and with no landmarks on which to guide itself, is appropriate to describe the methods by which they may assist an individual in a situation that requires decision-making, for, in the majority of decision situations, there can be more than one alternative. the astrological diagram of the zodiac pl

their points of reference; both make use of charts and tables developed during centuries of observation and recording. both arrive at their conclusions through mathematical computation. the navigator charts a course, but does not establish a destination. the astrologer casts a horoscope, but does not determine character or destiny. the role of astrology, so say the astrologers, is comparable to a ship fs compass. the compass points the way to a predetermined destination, but it does not establish that destination. as a helmsman turns the ship fs wheel to bring the vessel into accord with the compass, so the individual fs free will must bring the vessel of his or her life into accord with the findings of astrology, if he or she is to benefit from them. by placing each individual at the cent

of the tallest mountain in turkey, agri dagi (mt. ararat, that some travel agencies include participation in expeditions to search for the ark as part of tour packages to turkey. several ark sightings on mt. ararat occurred during the twentieth century. during a thaw in the summer of 1916, a russian imperial air force lieutenant flying over mt. ararat reported seeing half the hull of some sort of ship poking out above surface of a lake. a photograph taken in 1972 by the earth research technical satellite (erts) is said to reveal an unusual feature at 14,000 feet on mt. ararat. it was reported to be the same size as the ark. in the 1980s, former nasa astronaut james irwin participated in expeditions up the mountain, but he found only the remnants of abandoned skis. with the breakup of the f

m have been documented well enough to satisfy skeptics. during a thaw in the summer of 1916, according to one account, a russian imperial air force lieutenant noticed a half-frozen lake in a gully on the side of mt. ararat. world war i was raging and the russian pilot was flying high-altitude tests to observe turkish troop movements. flying nearer to the lake, he saw half the hull of some sort of ship poking out above the lake surface. he reported it to his captain. the captain was flown over the site. believing it was noah fs ark, preserved because it was encased in ice most of the year, the captain sent a report to the russian tsar at st. petersburg. the tsar sent two corps of engineers up the mountain. it was nearly a month before the ark was reached. measurements by the engineers were

ortean picture library) inthe first century b.c.e, native armenians declared that remnants of noah fs ark could still be seen. received them. the russian revolution was underway in 1917, and the results of the investigation were never reported publicly. according to another story, the turkish air force in 1959 conducted an aerial survey of the ararat region. a photograph revealed the outline of a ship on one of the lower slopes of mt. ararat (just over 6,000 feet. the ship fs dimensions were similar, though somewhat larger, than those of the ark. another alleged aerial sighting was made in 1960. a turkish army pilot and a liaison officer reported seeing evidence of an enormous, rectangular barge on the southeast slope at about 13,000 feet altitude. a photograph taken in 1972 by the earth r

ces: berlitz, charles. the dragon fs triangle. new york: wynwood press, 1989. gthe dragon fs triangle. h [online] http//dragonsunlimited. tripod.com/index-8.html. japan fs dragon fs triangle thebermuda triangle is also known as the devil fs triangle. ber of accidents is unusually high or without explanation. in march 1918, during world war i, the uss cyclops vanished in the bermuda triangle. that ship may have been a casualty of war, but the december 1945 disappearance of flight 19, a training squadron of five u.s. navy torpedo bombers, became the most notorious of disappearances associated with the bermuda triangle. the squadron left fort lauderdale, florida, with 14 crewmen and disappeared after radioing in several distress messages. a seaplane sent in search of the squadron also vanishe

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ery well kept. it looked brand-new. it even smelled brand-new" they drove for about thirty minutes to a remote spot on a back road in maryland. when tom got out of the car he was astonished to see the egg-shaped object waiting for them. he was put into a circular room containing nothing but a couple of bucket seats and a gray tv screen. vadig and his companion disappeared into another part of the ship. after a few minutes the tv screen came alive, the object shuddered, and tom watched the image of the earth receding to a tiny speck on the screen. three or four hours passed. he was still dressed in his waiter's uniform and did not have a watch. but it seemed like hours before another planet appeared on the screen, grew larger, and then the craft landed with a thump. the young waiter found h

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ey called him "mad. accompanied in the ranks of the "insane" by such "madmen" as neitzsche, artaud, and reich, the mad arab makes a fourth, in a life-and-death game of cosmic bridge. they are all voices crying in that wilderness of madness that men call society, and as such were ostracised, stoned, and deemed mentally unfit for life. but, for them, justice will come when we have realised that the ship of state and the ship of st peter have become mere ships of fools- with captains who course the seas by stars, ignoring the eternal ocean- and then, we will have to look to the prisoners in the hold for navigational guidance. it is there, always, and cthulhu calls. prefatory notes the present manuscript was delivered into the hands of the editor by a priest who had managed to get ordained thr

adows, remember! spirits, ladies of the veil of shadows, remember! spirits, lords of the light of life, remember! spirits, ladies of the light of life, remember! spirits, lords of the infernal regions, remember! spirits, ladies of the infernal regions, remember! spirits, lords of the lords of marduk, remember! spirits, ladies of the lords of marduk, remember! spirits, lords of sin, who maketh his ship cross the river, remember! spirits, ladies of sin, who maketh his ship cross the skies, remember! spirits, lords of shammash, king of the elder ones, remember! spirits, ladies of shammash gula, queen of the elder ones, remember! spirits, lords of tshku, lord of the annunaki, remember! spirits, ladies of the goddess ziku, mother of enki, remember! spirits, lords of ninnasu, our father of the n

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dultery, vol. ii, p. 66. the sonnets relating the events of the seventh to the tenth day are dismal, attempting to drown love in lust. on the twelfth a little flame burns up, then comes the poem, which alice receives and reads. every verse is as charming, simple, and fascinating as the following two: one kiss, like snow, to slip, cool fragrance from thy lip to melt on mine; one kiss, a white-sail ship to laugh and leap and dip her brows divine. one kiss, a starbeam faint with love of a sweet saint, stolen like a sacrament in the night fs shrine! one kiss, like moonlight cold, lighting with floral gold the lake fs low tune; one kiss, one flower to fold, on its own calyx rolled at night, in june! one kiss, like dewfall, drawn a veil o fer leaf and lawn. mix night, and noon, and dawn, dew, fl

d all their restraint was as ephemeral as the fleeting hour. gand when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. h (n.b. husband: neither church nor registry office is mentioned) linked in the tiny shelf upon the ship, my blind eyes burned into her mild ones: limbs twined to each other while fine dew bedims their quivering skins: lip fastened unto lip: whole soul and body frenzied meet and clip; and the breath staggers, and the life-blood swims! terrible gods chant black demoniac hymns as the frail cords of honour strain and slip. for in the midst of that tremendous tide the mighty vigour of a god was mine

arkness. is there a life eternal? the grim horror of such a possibility grips us by the throat. is there an eternal death? ah! saviour, deliver us from the misery of our lot; lead us to the realms of eternal rest, where rich and poor, good and bad, are made one, lost in the depths of the lethean sea. and what can all this lead us to, this progress through misery? to the great archetype the arahat-ship of buddha. it was by gazing on the sunken eyes of a corpse, so the legend runs, that gautama forsook pleasure for a life of pity. life is feodal to death, and our ultimate sleep is greater than our first awakening. the womb was dark; from out it sprang the thoughtless; the tomb is darker still; into it creeps the thoughtful. the dead are our gods, soon we shall strike our tent for the last ti

culties, was itself whirled into that furnace of hereditary prejudice, and educational bias, from out of which it has flowed a mass of molten and subservient acquiescence. lost in the axiomatic whirlpools of egotistical conceit, it has been cast up once again on the shores of unknowable despair, a veritable mass of philosophic pig-iron, of no further use than that of acting as ballast to the good ship which is to carry us across the turbid ocean of raging eclectics. crowley is more than a new-born dionysus, he is more than a blake, a rabelais or a heine; for he stands before us as some priest of apollo, hovering etwixt the misty blue of the heavens, and the more certain purple of the vast waters of the deep. before the name of that which is beyond life and death, beyond matter and energy

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this master of chaos also have goat heads, indicating that their intelligence has been used exclusively to further material and selfish ambitions. this malignant entity has the head of a crocodile, symbol of cruelty. the snake emerging from his body, instead of from his brow, indicates the use of the creative energy, not for enlightenment, but for physical gratification. it also represents medium-ship, rather than conscious control; for the chief center of power in disintegrative mediumship is the solar plexus. the two men with goat heads chained by the neck at the monster's feet represent the certain fate that awaits all who use magical powers to attain selfish or purely material ends. sooner or later they become slaves of the very forces they have used, and are finally completely destroy

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c initiations in return for substantial sums of money for at least two of the three, hartmann and reuss, seem to have been in perpetual financial difficulties. in many ways hartmann nicknamed dirty franz on account of his greasy appearance was the most interesting of the three. born in 1838, he had studied medicine at munich, but in 1865, without having qualified, he had sailed to the u.s.a. as a ship s doctor. he obtained some sort of medical qualification at st. louis, probably at the city s eclectic medical college, notorious for its low standards, and practised medicine in several different states. apart from his frequent moves, possibly symptomatic of financial difficulties, his life seems to have been uneventful enough until his conversion to madam blavatsky s theosophy (c. 1878) and

f the o.t.o. s: it is my will (gives c. his insignia, and affixes o.t.o (places candle in his hand) w (to c) most mysterious master, the secret place of masters is never closed. it is dissolved into ecstasy, and i request you to order that this may be done (o.t.o. applause) dissolution w: let the word of the god john be heard of us (orator reads i am that i am to end of crowley s mystery-play the ship) file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c4.html (19 of 19 [12/28/2001 2:03:21 pm] sroto_notes 32. also known by the titles of master magician and devotion. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael/my..20secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/note32.html [12/28/2001 2:03:23 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. part two the rituals themselves* lodge o

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illed with water; and the fire [that] saith not [it is] enough. 30:17 the eye [that] mocketh at [his] father, and despiseth to obey [his] mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. 30:18 there be three [things which] are too wonderful for me, yea, four which i know not: 30:19 the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. 30:20 such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, i have done no wickedness. 30:21 for three [things] the earth is disquieted, and for four [which] it cannot bear: 30:22 for a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat; 30:23 for an odious [woman] when she is married; an

3:20 look upon zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle [that] shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. 33:21 but there the glorious lord [will be] unto us a place of broad rivers [and] streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. 33:22 for the lord [is] our judge, the lord [is] our lawgiver, the lord [is] our king; he will save us. 33:23 thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey. 33:24 and the inhabitant shall not say, i am sick: the people that dwell therein [shall be] forgiven [t

ome up on mount zion to judge the mount of esau; and the kingdom shall be the lord s. page 535 jonah jonah 1:1 now the word of the lord came unto jonah the son of amittai, saying, 1:2 arise, go to nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. 1:3 but jonah rose up to flee unto tarshish from the presence of the lord, and went down to joppa; and he found a ship going to tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto tarshish from the presence of the lord. 1:4 but the lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. 1:5 then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that [were] in the ship into the

to go with them unto tarshish from the presence of the lord. 1:4 but the lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. 1:5 then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that [were] in the ship into the sea, to lighten [it] of them. but jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. 1:6 so the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, what meanest thou, o sleeper? arise, call upon thy god, if so be that god will think upon us, that we perish not. 1:7 and they said every one to his fellow, come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil [is] upon us. so they cast lots, and the lot fell upon jonah. 1:8 then said the

us, walking by the sea of galilee, saw two brethren, simon called peter, and andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. 4:19 and he saith unto them, follow me, and i will make you fishers of men. 4:20 and they straightway left [their] nets, and followed him. 4:21 and going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, james [the son] of zebedee, and john his brother, in a ship with zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them. 4:22 and they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him. 4:23 and jesus went about all galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. 4:24 and his fame went throughout all syria: and they brought u

, i will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. 8:20 and jesus saith unto him, the foxes have holes, and the birds of the air [have] nests; but the son of man hath not where to lay [his] head. 8:21 and another of his disciples said unto him, lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. 8:22 but jesus said unto him, follow me; and let the dead bury their dead. 8:23 and when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. 8:24 and, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. 8:25 and his disciples came to [him] and awoke him, saying, lord, save us: we perish. 8:26 and he saith unto them, why are ye fearful, o ye of little faith? then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. 8:2

d of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters. 8:33 and they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils. 8:34 and, behold, the whole city came out to meet jesus: and when they saw him, they besought [him] that he would depart out of their coasts. 9:1 and he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city. 9:2 and, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. 9:3 and, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, this [man] blasphemeth. 9:4 and jesus knowing their thoughts said, wherefore think ye evil in y

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er, united; whence we may perceive the reason why the ornaments before described should be upon his temple.2 on the medals of antigonus, king of asia, is a figure with his hair hanging in artificial ringlets over his shoulders, like that of a woman, and the whole composition, both of his limbs and countenance, remarkable for extreme delicacy, and feminine elegance.3 he is sitting on the prow of a ship, as god of the waters; and we should, without hesitation, pronounce him to be the bacchus difuhj, were it not for the bow that he carries in his hand, which evidently shows him to be apollo. this i take to be the figure under which the refinement of art (and more was never shown than in this medal) represented the apollo didym us, or union of the creative and destructive powers of both sexes

e belief in it is clearly established by the eagerness with which such obscene rites were laid to the charge of most of the medi val secret societies, whether lay clubs or religious sects, and we know that secret societies abounded in the middle ages. however willing the romish clergy were to make profit out of the popular phallic wor- 1 see before, p. 146, and plate xxxiii. generative powers 171 ship, they were equally ready to use the belief in it as a means of exciting prejudice against any sects which the church chose to regard as religious or political heretics. it is very evident that, in the earlier ages of the church, the conversion of the pagans to christianity was in a vast number of cases less than a half-conversion, and that the preachers of the gospel were satisfied by people

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ly sought to enter with such passion. since these disillusioned candidates remain convinced that they have learned nothing, and that there is nothing to learn, they can do no harm. the heart of magical initiation is death and rebirth. symbolism of mystical rebirth is found throughout the literature of mankind. the story of jonah and the whale is an example of rebirth through the calling. aboard a ship during a raging storm, jonah has no faith in divine protection. his spiritual center is overpowered by the brute instincts of the flesh. cast into the sea, he is swallowed by a whale- yet he does not die. jonah sees that his fears were needless, that he is protected by god. he perceives that the seemingly cruel act of his being cast overboard is part of a divine plan for his salvation. after

or colored lines drawn in the sand, was erected as the focus for magical forces. the modern rebirth of wicca (a conscious attempt to revive the deification of nature) shows a regression to the nomadic type of magical worship, where the temple is formed by convening a group of worshippers, often but not necessarily thirteen in number, on the eight major feast days of the year, called sabbats. wor- ship takes place (ideally) out-of-doors with only the magic circle to act as the walls of the psychically erected temple. modern pagans, because they welcome uncritically the forces of magic and because they are fiercely devoted to their beliefs, usually succeed in filling their tem- ples of the imagination with light, which they personify as the great goddess, the soul of the world. however, it c

y times anthropologists investigating native societies discover that they possess a supreme deity they have nearly forgotten, a deity with few or no characteristics that has been thrust from its supreme position by younger, more human god-forms. this is a degeneration of religion and is a great evil when it is committed by those who should know better. human beings shame themselves when they wor- ship idols of brass or wood, but they also shame themselves when they bend their knees before any god with a name or a shape. indeed, there is no difference between the two offenses-only a matter of degree. god-forms gain or lose in power depending on how they are looked upon and worshipped by their people. many gods who at one time were principal deities have, through conquest, become absorbed in

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she received her most significant writings from them while in a trance state. even as a sickly young child, blavatsky was strongly gifted with mediumistic abilities. she was a sleepwalker, and was given to fits of uncontrollable fury that caused her nurses to accuse her being possessed by devils. in order to drive them out, she would later say, she was "drenched with enough holy water to float a ship."88 her favorite playmate was a spirit that came in the form of a small hunchbacked boy. when others told her that they could not see him, she became irritated by their lack of perception. as she grew into her teens, her mediumistic gifts flowered, and she performed such tricks as locating lost objects and predicting the date of death of visitors to the house. at seventeen, her governess told

seen in the air or on the ground 2. second kind-a ufo at close range that interacts with the environment; quantifiable evidence of its presence remains after it has departed, such as scorch marks, impressions of landing gear, or elevated radiation levels 3. third kind-a ufo at close range the occupants of which are observed; usually they are seen entering or leaving their craft, but sometimes the ship and the occupants are observed separately following the death of hynek in 1986, two additional close encounter categories were added by those who study ufo events. these are the categories that have the greatest 174. hynek, 10. chapter nine: ufo abductions 139 bearing on astral projection, involving as they do direct interaction between the occupants of ufos and those who observe them. 4. fou

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

ound on its axis ninety degrees, the points designated h would seem to touch, and become alternately i and v, and the i and v would separate and become h. it is easy to misinterpret occult symbols by failing to recognize that the way they appear on the page, or carved into clay or stone, is not their true form but only a flat rendering of a three-dimensional relationship. just as a blueprint of a ship will not convey all the information it is capable of conveying to the shipbuilder unless the shipbuilder realizes that it is a flat image of a three-dimensional object, so ancient symbols such as the staff of hermes cannot be understood unless we recognize that they are only images of mental models that possess depth as well as height and breadth. an excellent example of this error is the spi

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

ly imported from egypt, and to the votaries of the goddess it symbolized the seed of the god osiris, which germinated and brought forth fruit through the spells of the goddess isis. the festivals and processions of isis were everywhere most popular, and were enjoyed by learned and unlearned alike. in fact, the isis-play which was acted annually in november, and the festival of the blessing of the ship, which took place in the spring, were the most important festivals of the year. curiously enough, all the oldest gods and goddesses of egypt passed into absolute oblivion, with the exception of osiris (sarapis, isis, anubis the physician, and harpokrates, the child of osiris and isis, and these, from being the ancestral spirits of a comparatively obscure african tribe in early dynastic times

t house in this place shall therefore be called 'ast-nefert'[fn#98] from this day. it is situated to the south-west of the city of nart, and [covereth] a space of four schoinoi" and ra heru-behutet said unto thoth "hast thou not searched through this water for the enemy" and thoth said "the water of the god-house in this place shall be called by the name of 'heh (i.e, sought out" and ra said "thy ship, o heru-behutet, is great) upon ant-mer. and thoth said "the name of [thy ship] shall be called 'ur, and this stream shall be called 'ant-mer" as concerning (or, now) the place ab-bat) is situated on the shore of the water "ast-nefert" is the name of the great house "neb- aha [is the name of] the priest. is the name of the priestess "heh" is the name of the lake [is the name] of the water "am

her, that typhon was of red complexion, horus fair, and osiris black, does not this show that they were of the human species, and subject to the same accidents as all other men?[fn#323] nay, they go farther, and even declare the particular work in which each was engaged whilst alive. thus they say that osiris was a general, that canopus, from whom the star took its name, was a pilot, and that the ship which the greeks call argo, being made in imitation of the ship of osiris, was, in honour of him, turned into a constellation and placed near orion and the dog-star, the former being sacred to horus and the latter to isis [fn#323] red is the colour attributed to all fiends in the egyptian texts. one of the forms of horus is described as being "blue-eyed" and the colour of the face of osiris i

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

metals into its semen [seed] in order to transmute them into the pure gold of the spirit; their labor would be impossible if the undines did not obey or if the salamanders of fire would not make the voluptuous undines fertile, because without the fire, the tempting undines can only take us to a shipwreck. ulysses (the cunning warrior and destroyer of citadels) was himself bound to the mast of the ship so that he would not fall into the seductive sexual beauty of the undines. ancient gnostics stated: all of you will become gods if you leave egypt and pass-through the red sea (the ocean of temptations. todo hierofante de la naturaleza se convierte en rey de los elementales. si quer is ser admitidos en los para sos elementales de la naturaleza, no mat is, no com is carne de ninguna especie. n

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rer *260: benedictus dominus noster: our blessed lord 2080: theosophic extension of the planetary line 2080: thpthrthrth, taphthartharath, spirit of mercury 2080: artificer's fire (greek (john michell) 2080: light and fire in greek (michell) 2080: first-born in greek (rev. 1: 5) chapter 11 the kamea of yesod/moon the magical numbers of the moon are nine, eighty-one, 369, and 3321. the moon is the ship and guide of the heavens, the numinous, ever-changing night light in the sky. it thus became the natural symbol in all early religious traditions for the transforming goddess, as did the symbols of the lotus and the lily.her moon-flowers. in the jungian and alchemical traditions, she is the anima mundi, the soul of the world. in latin, anima mundi has a value of eighty-one, one of the magical

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

actually had a tail. was actually working with the greys, but, she said, they did not (always) get along. it was the 'greys' craft. she was literally 'listening' to their 'telepathy. they were conversing about her as she was lying on a table in the craft waiting for their decision on what to do. she became convinced that the black one wanted to kill her, and the greys were 'saying 'no. not on our ship' she said she saw something horrifying at that point. she said the black one just 'swept' its hand across the chest of one of the greys and literally tore the greys chest open. it fell to the ground and she thinks it died. she says 'i know they have green blood, i saw it bleed" before one feels too 'sorry' however for the 'greys, they should understand that many accounts indicate that the gre

ents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (49 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:20:00] there was one case where a woman and her two children were abducted by the entities from bellatrix- the entities referred to as 'sm's("snake men- branton) in the case for the ufo, by m. k. jessup and annotated by carlos allende and 'friends- and she would not cooperate with them when they had her on board their ship. their reply to this lack of cooperation was very direct- they killed both of her children. she managed to run down a hallway and went into a room where she saw a vat full of red liquid and body parts of humans and animals. she saw another vat of the same type in which the liquid was being agitated, and as she looked into the vat she could see greys bobbing up and down, almost swimming, absor

she hates that particular species of reptilians. they have materialized inside of her car while she was driving (the "intermediate" height of some of these reps are 4-41/2 feet. she's also the one who saw the rep playing around with her jewelry box) lindemann says there was an argument between the gray crew leader and the reps but my info was that when the reptilian walked onto the ramp into the ship all of the grays became extremely frightened and seemed to "stand at attention" i think she likened it to "the admiral" coming onboard, such was the fear that was elicited amongst the grays by this reptilian("admiral on the deck) on another occasion she was taken to a reptilian underground base (that same species again) beneath death valley. she was brought before the "ancient one" my nicknam

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

of the goddess from chthonic regions? naturally, this is the season to celebrate the victory of life over death, as any nature-lover will affirm. and the christian religion was not misguided by celebrating christ's victory over death at this same season. nor is christ the only solar hero to journey into the underworld. king arthur, for example, does the same thing when he sets sail in his magical ship, prydwen, to bring back precious gifts (i.e. the gifts of life) from the land of the dead, as we are told in the 'mabinogi. welsh triads allude to gwydion and amaethon doing much the same thing. in fact, this theme is so universal that mythologists refer to it by a common phrase 'the harrowing of hell. however, one might conjecture that the descent into hell, or the land of the dead, was orig

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

fe s only purpose. when he has no lust, no hatred, a man walks safely among the things of lust and hatred. to obey the atman is his peaceful joy: sorrow melts into that clear peace: his quiet mind is soon established in peace. the uncontrolled mind does not guess that the atman is present: how can it meditate? without meditation, where is peace? without peace, where is happiness? the wind turns a ship from its course upon the waters: the wandering winds of the senses cast man s mind adrift and turn his better judgment from its course. when a man can still the senses i call him illumined. the recollected mind is awake in the knowledge of the atman which is dark night to the ignorant: the ignorant are awake in their sense-life which they think is daylight: to the seer it is darkness. water f

hite hoar-frost. shield idle on an old shoulder. wind intense, shoots are frozen. snow is falling upon the ice. wind is sweeping thick tree-tops. shield bold on a brave shoulder. snow is falling, cloaks the valley. soldiers hasten to battle. i go not, a wound stays me. snow is falling on the slope. stallion confined; lean cattle. no summer day is today. snow is falling, white the mountain s edge. ship s mast bare at sea. a coward conceives many schemes. 248 gold rims round horns, horns round bards. roads frozen, air gleaming bright; brief twilight, tree-tops bowed down. bees in honeycombs, faint cry of birds. day bleak, white-mantled hill-ridge, red dawn. bees in refuge, cold lid on the ford, frozen when ice forms. none may escape death s coming. bees in prison, green-hued ocean. stalks dr

ime he bites off more than he can chew. taking the second thoughts means taking the first steps to wisdom. a questioning man is half way to begin wise. the wisest words ever written were the ten commandments. the most foolish words were written by those who ignored them. the wisest man sees the least, says the least, but prays the most. a word to the wise is enough. a small leak will sink a great ship. let sleeping dogs lie. truth has a gude face but raggit claes. truth will aye stand without a prop. a wise man wavers, a fool is fixed. he s wise that can mak a friend o a fae. the first step to virtue is to love it in another. commonsense has its feet planted in the past. on an unknown path it is better to be slow. a blind man should not be sent to buy paint. it s no use carrying an umbrell

e you marry, keep both eyes open; after you marry, shut one. jamaica tell me whom you love, i ll tell you who you are. creole god created us so that we should form the human family, existing together because we were made for one another. we are not made for an exclusive self-sufficiency but for interdependence, and we break the law of being at our peril. desmond tutu god made the sea, we make the ship; he made the wind, we make the sail; he made the calm, we make oars. swahili every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on the part of the people, and ours is no exception. it is up to the american writer to find out what these laws and assumptions are. james baldwin people wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry and that s a mistake. on

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

etal moon bull silver mercury serpent quicksilver venus dove, copper sun lion gold mars wolf iron jupiter eagle pewter saturn ass lead numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott note also the number of 7 pipes in the musical instrument at the mouth of the old deity pan, the great whole, a sun god (not the later rural pan. 78. an ancient symbol of the universe was a ship with seven pilots, in the center of the ship, a lion; possibly from an idea that the sun first rose in leo. note aries supplanted taurus, as the constellation in which the sun rises at the vernal equinox; taurus was the sign at the early fabulous periods of the earth it was displaced about 300 b.c. the sign becomes changed every 2150 years by the precession of the equinoxes. pisces has now fo

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

idon' moses says 'rejoice, zebulun, in thy going out; and, issachar, in thy tents. they shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, of the treasures hid in the sand' this suits well with the tropical, earthy and watery signs of capricorn and cancer. the armorial bearings of zebulun are purple, and a ship" 39 holy name oro tribe reuben sign aquarius angelic name zinggen "of reuben (aquarius, jacob says 'reuben, thou are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power. unstable as water, thou shall not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledest thou it: he went up to my couch' moses says 'let reuben live

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

dles now remain alight. ch.m. takes the white one and faces east, still swinging the censer; one blue candle at each side remains. 2nd and 3rd lift aside all the rest, leaving spaa for the postulant to pass through. ch.ad. leads the way into me vault, places light on pedestal, and gives censer to 3ni. ch.ad. passes to south, postulant stands west of pastas. 2nd ad. standing beside postulant takes ship of linen and winds it slowly round the postulant, as the chief repeats sentences. the brow is bound, lips, heart, solar plexus and hips. six bells sound 0! i! 0 ch.ad (for brow "be not curious in unnecessary matters, for more things are shown thee than thou can understand (for lips)"be silent, 0 man, before the lord, for he is raised up out of his holy habitation (for heart "woe be to the fea

hur, who, when in his turn had become grandmaster, brought the order out from under the veil of secrecy it had previously been functioning under and established it as a powerful force for righteousness in the public and outer world. historians agree that this re-establishment of the order of the round table took place in 462 a.d. the main object of the round table fellowship under the grandmaster-ship of king arthur was to bring as much of the christian ideals as the people could assimilate into the public life and activities of his time. the laws of true chivalry were laid down and they became the foundation of all that is best in european civilization. following the death of king arthur there were times when the order flourished exceedingly. in the crusades of 1250 a.d. between five and

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

thor is described; and fornm. sog. 4, 245, ed. christ, p. 26. freyr gioir af silfri, isl. sog. 1, 134. landn. 3, 2. one man carried a statuette of thor carved in whalebone (likneski thors af tonn gert) in his pocket, so as to worship him secretly, when living among christians, fornm. sog. 2, 57. thor's figure was carved on the ondvegis-pillars, eyrbygg. p. 8. landnamab. 2, 12; and on the prows of ships, fornm. sog. 2, 324. a figure of thorgersr holgabriisr, with rings of gold round the arm, to which people kneel, fornm. sog. 2, 108^ 1 finn magnnsen, bidrag til norclisk archaeologie, pp. 113-159. 2 there is another thing to notice in this passage. the fignre of thorgersr lent its hand up, when some one tried to snatch a ring off its arm, and the goddess was not disposed to let him have it

; an as. biflise, beoflise, ohg. pepalindi, might be suggested by the soft movement of the air, a very apt name for tlie all-penetrating god; but these forms, if they gave rise to the norse term, are no longer found in as. or ohg. wuotan's dominion both over the air and over the water explains, how it is that he walks on the waves, and comes rushing on the gale. it is 05inn that sends wind to the ships, fornm. sog. 2, 16, hence a good sailing wind is called oshahjrr, ssem. 16o, i.c^oskahyrr\>yrv is from byrja, ohg. purran, to rise, be lifted up. it is in striking accord with this, that the mhg. poets use wunschivint in the same sense; hartmann says, greg. 615: do sande in (to them) der slieze krist den vil rehten wunschwint (see suppl) but other attributes of wuotan point more to hermes an

2. hans sachs also relates i. 5, 508% how the maids who had not taken onen, were forced into the j)lough (see sujipl- to this day, in the churches of some villages of holstein, largely inhabited by seamen, there hang little shi'ps, which in springtime, when navigation re-opens, are decorated with ribbons and flowers: qnite the roman custom in the case of isis (p. 258. we also find at times silver ships hung up in churches, which voyagers in stress of weather have vowed in case of a safe arrival home; an old instance of this i will borrow from the vita godehardi hildesiensis: fuit tunc temporis in trajectensi episcopatu vir quidam arti mercatoriae deditus, qui frequenter mare transiret; hie quodam tempore maxima tempestate in medio mari deprehenditur, ab omnibus conclamatur, et nil nisi ult

a small shijis smeared with reindeer's blood, and han? them on trees; hogstrom, elterretninger om lapland, p. 511. these votive gifts to saints fill the place of older ones of the heathen time to gods, as tlie voyagers to helgohuid continued long to respect fosete's sanctuary (p. 231. now, as silver ylovrjhs too were placed in churches, and later in the mid. ages were even demanded as dues, these ships and idoughs together lend a welcome support to the ancient worship of a maternal deity (see suppl. 1 philostr. de vitis sophist, lib. 2 cap. 1, ed. paris. 1608, p. 549- so jean le maire de beiges in his illustrations de gaulle, paris, 1548, bk. 3 p .xxviii' au temps du([uel (hercules allemannus) la deesse isis, ri)yne'.ypt, veint en alh-maigne et montra au rude peuple i'usaige de mouldre la

sigurd found brynhild, and who gives him healing salves, and foretells his fate (ecke 151 160, must also be reckoned among norns or valkyrs. the valkyrs bestowed on their favourites, as staufenberger's lover did on him (p. 419, victory and protection in battle (sigrun hlifsi honom opt sisan i orrostom, soem. 142; this relation is technically expressed by vcrja (tueri 134; they hide their heroes' ships (svava 145, sigrun 153. the above-mentioned hildr too, the daughter of king hogni (hagene, was hesin's betrothed. the memory of these shield-maidens has filtered down even into modern folksongs: in arvidsson 1, 189, kerstin skoldmo with her 8000 maids redeems her betrothed from captivity; at other times it is a sister that rescues her brother, by which is not meant a sister by birth, but a v

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

ke, and plague, and terror on the earth! a casting down of them that sate in high places; a famine upon the multitude! 58. and the grape fell ripe and rich into his mouth. 59. stained is the purple of thy mouth, o brilliant one with the white glory of he lips of adonai. 27 magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 283 60. the foam of the grape is like the storm upon the sea; the ships tremble and shudder; the shipmaster is afraid. 61. that is thy drunkenness, o holy one, and the winds whirl away the soul of the scribe into the happy haven. 62. o lord god! let the haven be cast down by the fury of the storm! let the foam of the grape tincture my soul with thy light. yes, i dare say. but is there not here a sort of moral oxymoron? are not the masters pursuing two diametrica

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

thened themselves gradually by growth. but atlas in her momentary madness poured out blood and treasure in the fatuous attempt to impose alien domination on lands utterly unsuited to the genius of the people. the idea, of course, was to increase the supply of labour and consequently of crude zro. in the first place the adventure was expensive. it was uneconomical (in the scientific sense) to send ships with less than 1000 fighting men. the zro required for these meant the employment of at least 7000 serviles, and the naval construction was therefore of a colossal order. but although little difficulty was found in conquering the country in the military sense, the natives had to be almost exterminated, and the labour of the survivors proved difficult to enforce. it was even then not a tenth

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he number 10. from this ninth sephira came the tenth and last, thus completing the decad of the numbers. it is called mlvth, malkuth, the kingdom, and also the queen, matrona, the inferior mother, the bride of microprosopus; and shkinh, shekinah, represented by the divine name adonai, adni, and among the angel hosts by the kerubim, krvbim. now, each of these 5 weh note: tharshisim. literally the "ships of tarshish. isaiah, ii, 16 "and upon all the ships of tarshish, and upon all delightful imagery" see also isaiah xxiii, 1. mathers copies ginsburg's "the kabbalah" with a reference to daniel x,6 for this angelic order, but all that is found there is a description of an angel. the figuration of "brass" in the description is all that can be directly found to unite to netzach- in as much as br

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at uprooteth the great trees of the earth, and shaketh the mountains thereof. and the throne of his spirit is a mighty throne of madness and desolation, so that they that look upon it shall cry: behold the abomination! of a single ruby shall that throne be built, and it shall be set upon a high mountain, and men shall see it afar off. then will i gather together my chariots and my horsemen and my ships of war. by sea and land shall my armies and my navies encompass it, and i will encamp round about it, and besiege it, and by the flame thereof shall i be utterly devoured. many lying spirits have i sent into the world that my aeon might be established, and they shall be all overthrown. great is the beast that cometh forth like a lion, the servant of the star and of the snake. he is the etern

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3

s that passion refers everything to itself? he believes in his virtue and in his genius; can you not guess the end? all the surrounding objects are so many suggestions which stir in him a world of thought, all more coloured, more living, more subtle than ever, clothed in a magic glamour "these mighty cities" says he to himself "where the superb buildings tower one above the other; these beautiful ships balanced by the waters of the roadstead in homesick idleness, that seem to translate our thought 'when shall we set sail for happiness; these museums full of lovely shapes and intoxicating colours; these libraries where are accumulated the works of science and the dreams of poetry; this concourse of instruments whose music is one; these enchantress women, made yet more charming by the scienc

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to see again! his brain befooled, his pocket picked- how the beast cachinnated then, far from that doleful derelict sir palamede the saracen! 64 xxiv "one thing at least (quoth palamede "beyond dispute my soul can see: this questing beast that mocks my need dwelleth in deep obscurity" so delveth he a darksome hole within the bowels of etna dense, closing the harbour of his soul to all the pirate-ships of sense. and now the questing of the beast rolls in his very self, and high leaps his while heart in fiery feast on the expected ecstasy. but echoing from the central roar reverberates many a mournful moan, and shapes more mystic than before baffle its formless monotone! ah! mocks him many a myriad vision, warring within him masterless, turning devotion to derision, beatitude to beastliness

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

e time that witchcraft has been worked, have there been no major victories? a: certainly. when the armada was sighted in july 1588, witches allover britain passed the word calling for a grand sabbath to combine their powers. while drake was fmishing his game of bowls, witches from far and wide wererisking their lives to meet in small groups and conjure up the north-westerly gale that crippled the ships from the home of the inquisitors. more recently, when it was thought that the germans would invade england in the second world war, another grand sabbath was called. in the new forest over four hundred witches met to celebrate the gj;and mass. to increase the potency of their power, they accepted the offer from some of the members to be willing sacrifices, for although our god demands none

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

the aggregate sum of actions committed during innumerable previous existences. each action may in itself be as slight as can be conceived, like the minutest filaments of cotton, such that hundreds of them may be blown away by a single breath; and yet, as similar filaments when closely packed and twisted together form a rope, so heavy and strong that it can be used to pull elephants and even huge ships with, so the articles of man's karma, however trivial each of them may be in itself, would yet by the natural process of accretion, combine themselves closely and form a formidable pasa (rope) to pull the man with, i.e. to influence his conduct for good or evil" the theosophist, vol. vii, p. 60. 139 57: atom and electron: see consciousness of the atom, page 17-22. 140 58: the difficulty of g

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

, the world soul. physically speaking, this can be realized if we can appreciate the difference between our planetary illumination today and that of five hundred years ago our brilliantly lit cities, our rural districts, shining through the night with their lighted streets and homes; our airways, outlined with their search-lights and fields of blazing globes; our oceans, dotted with their lighted ships, and increasingly our lighted airships will be seen, darting through the skies. these are but the result of man's growing illumination. his knowledge aspect of light has brought this into being. who shall say what will eventuate when the wisdom aspect predominates? when these are welded by understanding, the soul will control in the three worlds and in all kingdoms of nature. 3. the transmis

ALICE A BAILEY18 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME III ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

the planetary logos. b. he, the lord of the world, is releasing new energies into the form aspect, i.e, into the life and the lives of the various kingdoms in nature. humanity, being the most developed both from the angle of the mechanism and of consciousness is the point of greatest response. the mineral kingdom, through the excessive use of its form in the meeting of war necessities munitions, ships, and planes, etc. is being profoundly affected as are buildings, for instance, in blasted cities; the vegetable kingdom is almost as deeply affected through the destruction of vast areas of forests, fields and wide spaces of vegetation. c. the shamballa force, thus pursuing its work of destruction, is an aspect of the will and intention of the planetary logos but its first and primary effect

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

a numbing of the soul which is the result of death on every hand, loss, separation and the sight of untold pain and suffering. secondly, the widespread physical destruction, wrought by the invading and the defending armies the destruction of great cities with their accompaniments of civilised living, the wholesale wiping out of industrial plants and the mechanics of daily life, the sinking of the ships which distribute the raw products of civilised living and the complete disorganisation of all human affairs in every country in the world directly or indirectly and the breaking down of the structure of well-established financial relations, plus the disruption of the ordinary means of communication. add to this the monetary ruin of the masses of the people, and you have a true and not a sens

d the hierarchy externalises itself on earth, conditions will be totally different; there are today no empty spaces; the population of the world is enormously enlarged and is growing from year to year; no locality is isolated or unattainable; the jungles are open territory to the explorer and to the numerous commercial agents; vast cities cover the planet and oceans are traversed by multitudes of ships; the airways of the world are travelled by millions of passengers annually; the land is divided into minute sections by railroads, highways, speedways and myriads of lesser roads and streets. in fact, every living unit in the world is in touch with thousands of other units and can through the many means of information be in touch with millions; the news presses grind out the news from hour t

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in other places the entire size of the island of poseidonis is given as about the same as that assigned here to the "plain around the[[vol. 2, page] 768 the secret doctrine. city" alone. obviously, one set of statements refers to the great continent, and the other to its last remnant- plato's island. and, again, the standing army of atlantis is given as upwards of a million men; its navy as 1,200 ships and 240,000 men. such statements are quite inapplicable to a small island state, of about the size of ireland! the greek allegories give to atlas, or atlantis, seven daughters (seven sub-races, whose respective names are maia, electra, taygeta, asterope, merope, alcyone, and celaeno. this ethnologically, as they are credited with having married gods and with having become the mothers of famo

e root-races of future greece, and were a remnant of a sub-race of atlantis. plato hints as much in speaking of the latter, whose name it is averred came from pelagus, the great sea. noah's deluge is astronomical and allegorical, but it is not mythical, for the story is based upon the same archaic tradition of men- or rather of nations- which were saved during the cataclysms, in canoes, arks, and ships. no one would presume to say that the chaldean xisuthrus, the hindu vaivasvata, the chinese peirun- the "beloved of the gods" who rescued him from the flood in a canoe- or the swedish belgamer, for whom the gods did the same in the north, are all identical as a personage. but their legends have all sprung from the catastrophe which involved both the continent and the island of atlantis. the

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th, so did the lord god of abraham and jacob. we find in i. samuel, that "the lord thundered from heaven, and the most high uttered his voice, and he sent out arrows (thunder bolts) and scattered them (saul's armies) with lightning, and discomforted them (chap. xxii. 14, 15) the athenians are accused of having sacrificed to boreas; and this "demon" is charged with having submerged and wrecked 400 ships of the persian fleet on the rocks of mount pelion, and of having become so furious "that all the magi of xerxes could hardly counteract it by offering contra-sacrifices to tethys [herodotus "polym" cxc. very fortunately, no authenticated instance is on the records of christian wars showing a like catastrophe on the same scale happening to one christian fleet owing to the "prayers" of its ene

n amore. such abstinence from divine interference being hardly due to lack of[[footnote(s* cosmolatry, p. 415[[vol. 1, page] 468 the secret doctrine. prayers, sent to a common almighty god for mutual destruction, where, then, shall we draw the line between pagan and christian? and who can doubt that all protestant england would rejoice and offer thanks to the lord, if, during some future war, 400 ships of the hostile fleet were to be wrecked owing to such holy prayers. what is, then, the difference, we ask again, between a jupiter, a boreas, and a jehovah? no more than this: the crime of one's own next-of-kin- say of one's "father- is always excused and often exalted, whereas the crime of our neighbour's parent is ever gladly punished by hanging. yet the crime is the same. so far the "bles

arded as fables now; yet from the day of the institutes of justinian down to the laws against witchcraft of england and america- obsolete but not repealed to this day- such incantations, even when only suspected, were punished as criminal. why punish a chimera? and still we read of constantine, the emperor, sentencing to death the philosopher sopatrus for unchaining the winds, and thus preventing ships loaded with grain from arriving in time to put an end to famine. pausanias, when affirming that he saw with his own eyes "men who by simple prayers and incantations" stopped a strong hail-storm, is derided. this does not prevent modern christian writers from advising prayer during storm and danger, and believing in its efficacy. hoppo and stadlein two magicians and sorcerers- were sentenced

ld her secrets, is listening to the demands made upon her by her master, necessity. the coal mines of the world cannot long afford the increasing drain made upon them. steam has reached its utmost limits of power, and does not fulfil the requirements of the age. it knows that its days are numbered. electricity holds back, with bated breath, dependent upon the approach of her sister colleague. air ships are riding at anchor, as it were, waiting for the force which is to make aerial navigation something more than a dream. as easily as men communicate with their offices from their homes by means of the telephone, so will the inhabitants of separate continents talk across the ocean. imagination is palsied when seeking to foresee the grand results of this marvellous discovery, when once it is a

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57. then was the adept glad, and lifted his arm. lo! an earthquake, and plague, and terror on the earth! a casting down of them that sate in high places; a famine upon the multitude. 58. and the grape fell ripe and rich into his mouth. 59. stained is the purple of thy mouth, o brilliant one, with the white glory of the lips of adonai. 60. the foam of the grape is like the storm upon the sea; the ships tremble and shudder, the shipmaster is afraid. 61. that is thy drunkenness, o holy one, and the winds whirl away the soul of the scribe into the happy haven. 62. o lord god! let the haven be cast down by the fury of the storm! let the foam of the grape tincture my soul with thy light! 63. bacchus grew old, and was silenus; pan was ever pan for ever and ever more throughout the ons. 64. intox

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cutions and trials that extended over several generations in early america revealed deep fissures that divided communities along the lines of gender, class, and race, where those most likely to be suspected witches were indians, slaves, disorderly women, or bad neighbors, and not the benign cunning persons whose skills extended to healing, captivating reluctant sexual partners, or guiding wayward ships safely home.[55\ 84\ blacks who were believed to practice witchcraft were not usually identified in these early american prosecutions, although some africans were among the first to be accused. sources do not give voice to the witchcraft fears of black people at this time. instead, african american witchcraft beliefs were manifested in folklore, and the products of these beliefs were transmi

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t no sleep came into my eyes, and i could not put the beheaded out of my mind. now my lodging was directly over against the great lake, so that i could easily look upon it, the windows being near to the bed. about midnight, as soon as it had struck twelve, suddenly i saw a great fire on the lake, so out of fear i quickly opened the window to see what would become of it. then from afar i saw seven ships making forward, which were all full of lights. above each of them on the top hovered a flame that passed to and fro, and page 57 sometimes descended right down, so that i could easily judge that it must be the spirits of the beheaded. now these ships gently approached land, and each of them had no more than one mariner. as soon as they had come to shore, i saw our virgin with a torch going t

repine at the pains we were hereafter to undergo, but be helpful in restoring the present buried royal persons to life again; and therefore without delay to rise up with her, to journey to the tower of olympus, to fetch from there medicines useful and necessary for this purpose. this we soon agreed to, and followed her through another little door right to the shore. there the seven aforementioned ships stood all empty, on which the virgins stuck up their laurel branches, and after they had distributed us in the six ships, they caused us thus to begin our voyage in god s name, and looked upon us as long as they could have us in sight, after which they, with all the watchmen, returned into the castle. our ships each had a peculiar device. five of them indeed had the five regular bodies, each

and offering of honour to the wedding. it was a costly, great, set, round and oriental pearl, the like of which has never been seen, neither in our world nor yet in the new world. now the virgin having friendlily received it, the nymph further entreated that audience might be given to their entertainments, and to make a little stand, which the virgin was content to do, and commanded the two great ships to stand in the middle, and the rest to encompass them in a pentagon. after which the nymphs fell into a ring about, and with a most delicate sweet voice began to sing as follows: i naught better is on earth than lovely noble love page 63 whereby we be as god and no one vexeth his neighbour. so let unto the king be sung that all the sea shall sound. we ask, and answer ye. ii what hath to us

igns, and we sat in libra. besides other things our ship also had a noble and curious clock, which showed us all the minutes. the sea was so calm, too, that it was a singular pleasure to sail. but what surpassed all the rest was the old man s discourse; he knew so well how to pass away our time with wonderful stories, that i could have been content to sail with him all my life long. meanwhile the ships passed on in haste, for before we had sailed two hours the mariner told us that he already saw the whole lake almost covered with ships, by which we could conjecture that they had come out to meet a page 82 us, which proved true. for as soon as we had come out of the sea into the lake by the aforementioned river, there before us were five hundred ships, one of which sparkled with gold and pr

sea into the lake by the aforementioned river, there before us were five hundred ships, one of which sparkled with gold and precious stones, and in which sat the king and queen, together with other lords, ladies, and virgins of high birth. as soon as they were well in sight of us the pieces were discharged on both sides, and there was such a din of trumpets, shalms, and kettle drums that all the ships upon the sea capered again. finally, as soon as we came near they brought our ships together, and so made a stand. immediately the old atlas stepped forth on the king s behalf, making a short but handsome oration, in which he welcomed us, and asked whether the royal presents were ready. the rest of my companions were in great amazement, where this king should come from, for they imagined not

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s and gateways which link this physical dimension we see around us with other space-time dimensions. some of these gateways are reckoned to be at the great sacred places of the ancients, like stonehenge, machu picchu in peru, ayers rock, and the former lands of babylon and mesopotamia, now iraq. the bermuda triangle is believed to be another, which could explain the many strange disappearances of ships and aircraft, as the gateway opens. it may even be that these gateways were largely closed down for positive reasons, to prevent more negative extraterrestrials from entering this space-time reality. there are lots of maybes and so much more to know and understand. jamming frequency, closing the dimensional gateways, perhaps both- the precise cause of the prison doesn't matter for what i am

ama, was a knight of 30..and the truth shall set you free christ, as was prince henry the navigator, a grand master of the order. columbus's father-in-law was one of prince henry's captains, and inherited maps and charts from him which columbus used to 'find' the americas. the red cross on a white background was the templars symbol. it was outlawed by the pope at the time of the purge. columbus's ships sailed with the red cross on a white background!3 his historic journey was funded by king ferdinand of aragon, spain and queen isabella of castile, spain, whose marriage helped to unify spain. these were 'catholic' monarchs funding a trip by a man flying the flag of the knights templar. more than that, other support came from leonardo da vinci and lorenzo de medici, both high initiates of br

e without the knowledge of its genuine staff. this is not only an insult to the work the red cross is seeking to do, it is also extremely dangerous for the 99% who are genuinely working for that organisation out of compassion for the plight of the world's peoples. intriguingly, the red cross symbol is also that of the knights templar, the flag of england, and the symbol which columbus flew on his ships while 'discovering' the 'new world' on behalf of the templars. the red cross was formed during the elite-engineered franco- prussian war in 1870 via correspondence in our old friend, the london times. at the same time that these elite bankers were creating organisations to support the bolsheviks, they were also funding and setting up anti-bolshevik organisations. 72 .and the truth shall set

hools, universities, and the media, all the time. that version of events has almost nothing to do with truth. it has been created to mislead us and to persuade us to think and act in a particular way, which suits the aims of the human manipulators and their controllers, the prison warders. so if you want to go to war and you need the people to support you, just set up an attack on one of your own ships or have one of your top people assassinated, and whip up the public's indignation with propaganda against the alleged culprit. as long as people take everything at face value, without question, and they don't survey the world with open eyes and an open mind, we will go on being a bewildered herd, blindly following the sheep at the front. but is it a sheep- or a monster? and what is its agend

ional laws on neutrality and defying his own speeches by supplying the british with ammunition and weapons both covertly and through the lend lease act. some members of congress could see what was happening. representative philip bennett of missouri said "but our boys are not going to be sent abroad, says the president. nonsense, mr chairman; even now their berths are being built in our transport ships. even now the tags for identification of the dead and wounded are being printed by the firm of william c. ballantyne and co of washington."22 to this day, popular accounts of history portray roosevelt as a man who "strove in vain to ward off war".23 the elite plan, long known by roosevelt, was to engineer an attack on the united states which would so anger public opinion that people would ag

ers in the uk defence industry have suffered bizarre "suicides" and other deaths. many victims have worked for the general electric company and its subsidiary, marconi, and yet another cover up has suppressed the truth. one other name i believe was associated with the murders of both john and bobby kennedy was the greek shipping magnate aristotle onasis who made an incredible fortune by using his ships to transport drugs. interestingly, it is a greek custom that if you kill a man, you have to look after his wife and family. onasis married jackie, john kennedy's widow. malcolm x malcolm x was murdered while speaking at the audubon ballroom in new york. all the other speakers at the event pulled out at the last minute. across the street was the columbia presbyterian hospital, but they refuse

h was its top man. michael maholy, who worked for the state department and the cia for two decades, said that drugs were brought by sea to the zapata offshore rigs, unloaded, and then flown ashore in the helicopters, constantly carrying goods and personnel between the rigs and the american mainland. he said he saw this happening and confirmed it through the cables that he handled. maholy said the ships of a company called pacific seafood were used to ferry the drugs between countries.10 it is a big mental leap, i know, to appreciate that the world market in illegal hard drugs is controlled and supervised by elite elements within organisations like the cia and british intelligence, which are supposed to be there to protect society from the consequences of hard drug addiction. but there it i

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e as the break up and sinking of the land mass known as appalachia, which connected what we now call europe, north america, iceland and greenland.26 even their degree of submergence appears to be closely related. the so-called bermuda triangle, between bermuda, southern florida, and a point near the antilles, has long been associated with atlantis. it is an area steeped in legends of disappearing ships and aircraft. submerged buildings, walls, roads, and stone circles like stonehenge, even what appear to be pyramids, have been located near bimini under the waters of the bahama banks and within the "triangle".27 so have walls or roads creating intersecting lines. some other facts that most people don't know: the himalayas, alps, andes, and at least most other mountain ranges, were only form

enicians, the carians or "serpent sea people of the atlantean fire god. the tin mines of cornwall in the far west of england were first created by the sumerian empire and this was known to them in their writings as "the tin land country".33 a phoenician deity, later encompassed into christianity, was st michael and so you have st michael's mount just off the cornish coast near penzance.34 the tin ships operated from here, and there are many other references to "st michael" in that region. other phoenician-sumerian deities were st george of cappadocia in turkey, who defeated the dragon and became the patron saint of england; barat, a male deity, who became "briton; and barati, the female, who became the british heroine, britannia, when these deities were brought to these islands by the sume

he land of the two crowns, the perished dead one in the west, of the (sun) hawk race, aha manash (or minash) of the lower (or sunrise or eastern) and of the sunset (or upper or western) waters and of their lands and oceans, the ruler, the king of mushrim (the two egypts) lands, the son of the great sha-gana (or sha-gunu) of the (sun) hawk race, the pharaoh, the deceased, the commander-in-chief of ships "the commander-in-chief of ships (minash) made the complete course to the end of the sunset land, going in ships. he completed the inspection of the western lands, he built (there) a holding (or possession) in urani land. at the lake of the peak, fate pierced (him) by a hornet (or wasp, the king of the two crowns, manshu. this board tablet set up of hanging wood is dedicated (to his memory"

scribe anti-gravity technology of the type used in "flying saucers. so much so that when the chinese discovered sanskrit documents in tibet and sent them to the university of chandrigarh for translation, they were found to contain the knowledge to build interstellar spaceships, according to the university's dr ruth reyna.2 yet the documents are thousands of years old! dr reyna revealed that these ships were known as "astras" and it was claimed they could fly to any planet. some texts talk about them flying to the moon. details of building, flying, and operating the craft are all included. the chinese, apparently, even used part of the contents in their space programme.3 these were the craft used in the endlessly recorded "wars of the gods. the same basic knowledge used to build anti-gravit

the story of the bloodlines over hundreds of years and, of course, it is the logo of the red cross organisation, which, as i outline in the biggest secret, is an illuminati creation to allow them to manipulate within countries during wars and other events behind the cover of humanitarian aid. the vast majority of genuine red cross workers are not aware of this. the red cross was also flown on the ships of christopher columbus, an illuminati frontman, whom historians still insist discovered the americas. the red cross or sun-cross was originally written as a t and this became the "t-square" of freemasonry, or the tau cross. the splayed cross known as the maltese cross, so beloved of british royalty, was also found depicted in caves within this same sumer empire. this is today the symbol of

truth shall set you free and the biggest secret. jim shaw reveals that the initiation into the 33rd degree of the scottish rite of freemasonry includes drinking wine from a human skull. the knights templar, out of which freemasonry sprang to a large extent, were accused at the time of the purge in 1307 of using skulls in their rituals, and indeed they used to fly the skull and bones flag on their ships. pat robertson's father, senator a.willis robertson, helped to block the congressional investigation into the banking and currency practices of thejjluminati's federal reserve bank. pat robertson wrote in his book, the nezv world order, that his father was chairman of the house banking and currency committee, and went on to chair its equivalent in the senate. he said his father had..the hear

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eland and greenland.13 eventheir degree of submergence appear closely related. similar evidence can be producedto support the view that the continent known as mu or lemuria now rests on the bed ofthe pacific.14 the so-called bermuda triangle between bermuda, southern florida, anda point near the antilles, has long been associated with atlantis. it is also an areasteeped in legends of disappearing ships and aircraft. submerged buildings, walls, roadsand stone circles like stonehenge, even what appear to be pyramids, have been locatednear bimini, under the waters of the bahama banks and within the triangle.15 so havewalls or roads creating intersecting lines.16 some other facts that most people dontknow: the himalayas, the alps and the andes, only reached anything like their presentheight ar

for the knights templar. that137city also has a 3,200 year old egyptian obelisk at a key point in its street plan, the placede la concorde. princess diana passed that obelisk in the mercedes literally a minutebefore it crashed in the pont de lalma tunnel in 1997.by the middle of the 12th century the templars were second only to the romanchurch for wealth and influence. they had their own fleet of ships (on which they flewthe skull and bones flag, and their financial centres in london and paris were, in effect,the start of the modern banking system which has made humanity slaves to non-existentmoney. they, too, lent money that didnt exist and charged interest on it in truebabylonian brotherhood style. one documented case shows the templars charging 60 percent interest on the late payment of

successors own thegovernments of today. the templars were close to henry ii of england, the sponsor ofglastonbury. how interesting that henrys famous feud with the archbishop ofcanterbury, thomas a becket, ended when two knights arrived from france to murderhim in canterbury cathedral in 1170. henrys son richard the lionheart was, in effect,a templar himself, though not officially. he used their ships and preceptories and whenhe was forced to escape from england and the threats of his brother, john, he did sodisguised as a templar. he was protected by them and headed for the holy landcrusades against the muslim saracens. richard sold cyprus (a former phoeniciansettlement) to the templars and he was involved in negotiations between them and theirislamic version, the secret society called t

ars either left england or ireland or met their fate. scotland was a very differentstory. the templar fleet escaped from france at the time of the purge, particularly fromtheir main port at la rochelle, and took their wealth with them. there is, however,another possibility that philippe the fair was duped by the priory of sion who hadarranged for the english fleet to intercept the fleeing templar ships and steal the goldthat way. thats possible. the templars headed for scotland, portugal, and most likely,the americas as they knew that continent existed because they had access to theunderground knowledge of the aryan elite and they were well aware that thephoenicians had been to the americas thousands of years before.the choice of scotland was obvious for many reasons. the st clair-sinclair

ians and the reptilian crossbreeds.he was at one time employed by rene danjou of the reptilian house of lorraine, amember of the babylonian brotherhood and a nobleman with endless contacts acrosseurope, including genoa and v enice. columbus (real name colon) was a member of agroup inspired by the beliefs of the poet, dante, who was a very active cathar andtemplar and the flag columbus flew on his ships on that journey to the americas was..180the red cross on the white background. crucial support for columbus came from twohigh initiates of the babylon brotherhood network, lorenzo de medici, one of the mostpowerful venetian reptilian families, and the artist leonardo da vinci, a grand masterof the priory of sion.five years after columbus landed in the caribbean, an italian known as john cabo

inese, when the blacknobility-brotherhood in london was invading china by flooding that society withaddictive drugs. the russells later fused their operation with other bloodline familieslike coolidge and delano (comm 300 family designate, both of which producedpresidents of the united states, calvin coolidge and franklin delano roosevelt. therussells used to fly the skull and bones flag on their ships carrying the drugs and the220skull and bones society continues this drug running tradition through people like georgebush, one of the major drug barons in north america. the skull and bones society isdominated by about 20-30 families overwhelmingly from the eastern seaboard. mostclaim ancestry with the british aristocracy (true) or have a genetic line going back to theenglish puritan familie

d term as president in 1937 byrepeating over and over that the sons of america were not going to fight in another warin europe, while he knew full well that that was exactly what they were going to do.representative philip bennett of missouri told congress:but our boys are not going to be sent abroad, says the president. nonsense, mrchairman; even now their berths are being built in our transport ships. even now the tagsfor identification of the dead and wounded are being printed by the firm of william c.ballantyne and co of washington.23roosevelt had come to power for the second time by saying that america would notfight in another war in europe and so when he returned to the white house he had apublic relations problem because he was already helping to arrange that very war. aswith woodr

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r on the 27th of may, also an alcyone correlation. figure 7.4.1-1. energy conduits discovered with gravity wheel experiment one of the best confirmed ufo cases has to do with billy myers, from switzerland, who claims to have been contacted by extraterrestials who hail from the pleiades. some of the best authenticated photographs of ufos have been taken by myers, which he claims are pleiadian beam ships. could these beam ships be riding the energy conduits discovered by joe parr? 7.4.2 the orion connection the big conduit in the middle of december, shown in figure 7.4.1-1, and first week of january loads to another important connection, that of the great pyramid and the orion constellation (see figure 7.4.2-1. figure 7.4.2-1. orion constellation research by one of the early great pyramid su

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to cause love between friends and foes. he was of the order of thrones. he governeth 30 legions of spirits; and his seal is this, which wear thou as aforesaid (41) focalor- the forty-first spirit is focalor, or forcalor, or furcalor. he is a mighty duke and strong. he appeareth in the form of a man with gryphon s wings. his office is to slay men, and to drown them in the waters, and to overthrow ships of war, for he hath power over both winds and seas; but he will not hurt any man or thing if he be commanded to the contrary by the exorcist. he also hath hopes to return to the seventh throne after 1,000 years. he governeth 30 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (42) vepar- the forty-second spirit is vepar, or vephar. he is a duke great and strong and appeareth like a mermaid. his

s and seas; but he will not hurt any man or thing if he be commanded to the contrary by the exorcist. he also hath hopes to return to the seventh throne after 1,000 years. he governeth 30 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (42) vepar- the forty-second spirit is vepar, or vephar. he is a duke great and strong and appeareth like a mermaid. his office is to govern the waters, and to guide ships laden with arms, armour, and ammunition, etc, thereon. and at the request of the exorcist he can cause the seas to be right stormy and to appear full of ships. also he maketh men to die in three days by putrefying wounds or sores, and causing worms to breed in them. he governeth 29 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (43) sabnock- the forty-third spirit, as king solomon commanded t

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tain over a newly discovered country and sees that the inland plains lying behind the coastal ranges are fertile, and that a river flows through these plains and makes its ay to the sea through a gap in the mountain chain. he thinks of the agricultural wealth of the plains, transport down the river, and a harbour on the estuary,he knows that the scour of the river will have made a tunnel by which ships can come in. in his mind's eye he sees the wharfs and the warehouses, the stores and the dwellings. he wonders whether the mountains contain minerals, and pictures a railway line alongside the river and branch lines up the valleys. he sees the colonists coming in, and the need [page 164] for a church, a hospital, a gaol, and the ubiquitous saloon. his imagination maps out the main street of

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held to be established, but the things which the one sees and the other does not are not necessarily illusionary. chapter xvii methods of defence i in writing for the general reader an account of the methods to be used in combating a psychic attack, i am reminded of those excellent manuals upon medicine and surgery which an enlightened board of trade insists shall be provided for the captains of ships, together with a cupboard full of remedies, harmless and otherwise. when an emergency arises, the worthy skipper reads through the chapter he believes to bear upon the case in hand and goes to work as best he may. on these occasions the personal factor is a large one. so it is in dealing with psychic trouble. wide experience is needed for diagnosis, and specially trained faculties and specia

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, 1952. subsequently adamski claimed to have had contact with spacemen from mars and saturn and to have traveled 50,000 miles into space in their craft. after adamski s revelations, the convention of spaceman contacts, messages from outer space, and warnings about the welfare of the cosmos became firmly established. adamski expanded upon his revelations in two subsequent volumes: inside the space ships (1955) and flying saucers farewell (1961. by the late 1950s adamski was an international celebrity who lectured to large audiences in north america and europe. he also had his critics. in 1957 editor james mosley devoted an issue of saucer news to an expose of adamski. in 1963 adamski s close associate c. a. honey denounced him after discovering that adamski had rewritten the original messag

attack, in washington, d.c. his close associates founded the ufo education center in valley center, california, and the george adamski foundation, in vista, california, to carry on his legacy. sources: adamski, george. cosmic philosophy. freeman, s.d: pine hill press, 1961. flying saucer farewell. 1961. reprint, behind the flying saucer mystery. new york: paperback library, 1967. inside the space ships. 1955. reprint, inside the flying saucers. new york: paperback library, 1967. barker, gray. the book of adamski. clarksburg, w. va: saucerian publications, 1965. leslie, desmond, and george adamski. flying saucers have landed. london: werner laurie, 1953. rev. london: neville spearman, 1970. zinsstag& timothy good. george adamski: the untold story. beckenham, u.k: ceit publications, 1983. ad

empted to explain the phenomena of dreams by saying that they were the work of the elementals, who acted their strange fantasies before the mind of the sleeper as actors play in a theater. but on the whole there is little to connect him with the practice of magic. aldinach an egyptian demon, who, according to demonologists, presides over tempests, earthquakes, rainstorms, and hailstorms and sinks ships. when he appears in visible form, he takes the shape of a woman. alectorius (or alectoria) this stone is about the size of a bean, clear as crystal, sometimes with veins the color of flesh. it is said to be taken from the cock s stomach. according to ancient belief, it renders its owner courageous and invincible, brings him wealth, assuages thirst, and makes the husband love his wife, or, as

orld, the special sensory abilities of animals have been used in war and defense situations. robert lubow, professor of psychology at tel aviv university, israel, revealed various extraordinary developments in the use of animals in his book the war animals (1977. the russians trained porpoises and dolphins to recognize different kinds of metal plates in warships in order to lay mines beside enemy ships, rather like the story in the film day of the dolphin. in hong kong, police tested the use of rats to sniff out heroin. in britain, the royal air force devised a system of coating aircraft flight detectors( black boxes) with a special substance odorless to human beings but detectable by trained dogs, who can locate the recorders after a crash. during the vietnam war, prof. lubow successfully

e remaining group members committed suicide using vodka and phenobarbital. because the bodies were not discovered for several days, the exact time of death remains unknown. in the wake of the deaths, applewhite has joined the list of religious leaders known for the destructive twist they gave to their original vision and the multiple deaths that resulted. sources: balch, robert w. waiting for the ships: disillusionment and the revitalization of faith in bo and peep s ufo cult. in james r. lewis, ed. the gods have landed. albany, n.y: state university of new york press, 1995. henry, william. the keeper of heaven s gate: the religion behind the rancho santa fe suicides. anchorage, alaska: earthpulse press, 1997. applied psi applied psi, a term coined in the early 1980s by parapsychologist je

author identifies the ishmaelites with those tribes who overthrew the roman power and tells of a powerful northern people whose reign will be overturned by the antichrist. a universal kingdom will thereafter be founded, governed by a prince of french blood, after which a prolonged period of justice will supervene. bermuda triangle an area of the western atlantic between bermuda and florida where ships and planes are said to have vanished without a trace. during the late 1960s, inspired largely by the volume by vincent gaddis, invisible horizons: true mysteries of the sea (1965, a popular controversy erupted around claims that since 1945 over 100 ships and planes and more than 1,000 people have disappeared in the bermuda triangle. the area was also termed the hoodoo sea, the devil s triang

ring the late 1960s, inspired largely by the volume by vincent gaddis, invisible horizons: true mysteries of the sea (1965, a popular controversy erupted around claims that since 1945 over 100 ships and planes and more than 1,000 people have disappeared in the bermuda triangle. the area was also termed the hoodoo sea, the devil s triangle, limbo of the lost, the twilight zone, and port of missing ships. charles berlitz, who wrote several books on the triangle, speculated on the possibility of time warps, electromagnetic impulses from vanished civilizations, and extraterrestrial activities in ufos. the controversy was largely put to rest by lawrence david kusche in his book the bermuda triangle mystery.solved. kusche destroyed the mystery in a case-by-case discussion of the alleged disappea

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iometer of baraduc; de tromelin cylinder; water witching) magonia (journal) quarterly journal concerned with anomalies, such as visions, portents, prodigies, and ufos. the name magonia was given in medieval france to a mysterious land beyond the sky, the origin of all kinds of signs and wonders but inextricably bound up with the destinies of human beings. inhabitants of magonia traveled in aerial ships and were believed to destroy crops and kidnap human beings. the emperor charlemagne issued edicts to prohibit the magonians from troubling the air and provoking storms. issues of magonia have covered such subjects as glossolalia, ouija boards, pagan occultism, coincidences, spiricom, earth lights, psychic research, bigfoot, and other fortean topics. address: john rimmer, john dee cottage, 5

ive apparatus to demonstrate subtle plant reactions, many of which resembled nervous responses in animal or human life. prof. t. c. n. singh and stells ponniah of annamalai university in india carried out experiments to measure the growth in plants as a result of musical sounds (see plants, psychic aspects of. western scientists have demonstrated that ultrasonic sounds can destroy bacteria, guide ships in the dark, and weld together materials. in recent years, the hindu musician swami nadabrahmananda saraswati has demonstrated an ancient yoga of music, involving the arousal of kundalini energy through the psychic power of musical vibrations. in a western context, psychic effects from music were claimed by the singing teacher alfred wolfsohn. in contrast, some have suggested that the aggres

contacts with extraterrestrials and accompanying descriptions of their home planets, almost totally received by psychic means, began to appear with the publication of george adamski s first book. through the 1950s people such as truman bethrum, ernest norman, and howard menger described life on other planets. however, in the 1950s, a new element was added. space aliens traveled to earth on space ships. thus supplemented their telepathic and related communications with actual physical contact. these claims of contact with aliens from other planets were concurrent with the exploration of space by improved telescopes and space probes. such data gave a better picture than previously possible of the different planets in this solar system and disproved the history of contact literature concerni

d with its pilot, a woman named semjase. semjase claimed to reside on a planet in the pleiades. having discovered earth in the distant past, some pleiadians settled here and intermarried. the peace-loving semjase was part of a group who were attempting to assist humanity out of its warlike tendencies. meier claimed that semjase allowed him to take pictures of the pleiadian spacecraft, called beam ships, and that he even took a trip to the pleiades himself. while the photographs were the most important aspect of the meier contact claims, he also asserted that he had telepathic contacts with semjase. a first volume of photographs and an outline of the meier story was published in english in 1979, and a number of additional books appeared over the next few years as ufologists debated the pros

ir boats. at one time, sennen cove numbered among its inhabitants a group of skeptical fishermen who laughed at this superstition. accordingly, when the warning band of vapor next made its appearance, they sailed off singing gaily. but their boat never returned, their fate remained a mystery, and they strengthened rather than weakened the belief they had ridiculed. scotland has stories of phantom ships. near ballachulish, on the west coast of argyllshire, there is a rocky island on which the macdonalds of glencoe used to bury their honored dead. the tradition of the district tells that once, some hundreds of years ago, a skiff bearing a beloved chieftain s corpse to this place foundered before reaching its destination. for the macdonalds, it was a horrible catastrophe that a leader of thei

efore the gale, the bride and bridegroom clinging to the rigging as though in terror of immediate death by drowning. nor is this the only solway phantom, for that treacherous seaway once witnessed the foundering of two scandinavian pirate vessels, which are said to rise periodically from the water, the crew of each calling for mercy. religion has played a prominent part in some stories of specter ships. at boulogne, france, for example, there is a tradition to the effect that on one occasion in the middle ages, the townspeople wanted to build a church, for they were without any public place of worship. they were anxious to choose a site god would approve, but found it difficult to come to a decision, as everyone concerned suggested a different place. finally, a group assembled on the beach

his godly passengers calmed him, and while they sang an ave maria the ominous galley was submerged by the waves. the fisherman rowed on and reached his haven. the three saints rewarded him with a present of a gold ring. that ring figures in the old coat-of-arms of the venetian republic. there are legends of the sea in most countries. in japan, there are tales of phantom junks, distinctive chinese ships. the chinese used to paint a pair of great eyes on the prow of each craft to detect any monsters prowling afloat. on the coasts of the united states, there are traditions of spectral vessels. kindred stories are known in the ionian islands, and the folklore of the shetlands has a wealth of such tales. around the coast of denmark and the fiords of norway, many a phantom vessel was supposed to

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next saw him, he told me he had been hearing mental voices and channeling messages from a planet called landa, populated by wise, spiritually committed beings who looked like greek gods and goddesses. keith had learned that he was originally from that planet but had gone through many earthly incarnations so that he could lead the earth as it entered a period of turmoil and destruction before the ships from landa arrived to save the elect. over the years i monitored keith s emerging beliefs and sat in on a few to me unimpressive channeling sessions during which the all-wise david, his father on landa, spoke on a level of verbal and intellectual sophistication that exactly matched keith s. introduction xiii though i never for a moment believed in the literal reality of those of landa, as th

ontrove r s y and, for many, virtually define the image of a flying saucer as a domed disc with a thre e- ball landing gear. a fifty-four-page account of adamski s early contacts was added to an already existing manuscript (on supposed space visitations throughout history) by irish occultist desmond leslie and published in 1953 as fly- ing saucers have landed. two years later, in inside the space ships, adamski expanded his claims to encompass further interactions with extraterrestrials, both on earth and aboard saucers. according to adamski, the space brothers, as he called them, had come to help the human race out of its backward, violent ways, which were leading inexorably to nuclear war. they espoused a benign occult philosophy much like the one adamski had taught for many years. thoug

ki went on a final lecture tour through new york and rhode island in march 1965. for the preceding month, his financial resources exhausted, he had been living with nelson and madeleine rodeffer in maryland. he died of a heart attack at their home on the evening of april 23. see also: contactees; orthon; ramu; williamson, george hunt; yamski further reading adamski, george, 1955. inside the space ships. new york: abelard-schuman, 1961. flying saucers farewell. new york: abelard-schuman, 1962. special report: my trip to the twelve counsellors meeting that took place on saturn, march 27 30th, 1962. vista, ca: science of life. bennett, colin, 2000. breakout of the fictions: george adamski s 1959 world tour. the anom- alist 8 (spring: 39 84. ellwood, robert s, 1995. spiritualism and ufo religi

iate soltec, the human race will continue to be educated subtly through dreams, popular culture, and growing numbers of spacecraft sightings. unfortunately, there will be many ones who will confuse us with negative et encounters. indeed, the greys will take advantage of the opportunity to confuse the populace and attempt to tarnish our image. ones must be made aware of the distinction between the ships of light and the ships of abduction (soltec, n.d. in 2000, brianna wettlaufer of van tassel s organization, the ministry of universal wisdom (van tassel himself died in 1978, put out a statement that sought to separate ashtar from the ashtar command. van tassel, it was said, communicated only with ashtar; the ashtar command, on the other hand, was a concept promulgated by another early conta

al personality. a clone of the original ashtar, and is dangerous. a disobedient angel (wettlaufer, 2000. the name ashtar may owe its inspiration to a nineteenth-century work, oahspe, the 28 ashtar product of alleged angelic dictation to new york occultist john ballou newbrough. in this complex alternative history of earth and the universe, ashars are guardian angels who sail the cosmos in etheric ships. oahspe had a wide readership among devotees of the early contactee movement. see also: athena; contactees; korton; monka; portla; sananda; van tassel, george w. further reading alnor, william m, 1992. ufos in the new age: ex- traterrestrial messages and the truth of scripture. grand rapids, mi: baker book house. james, trevor [pseud. of trevor james constable, 1958. they live in the sky. lo

y the hawaii-based department of interplanetary affairs, provides a densely detailed overview of the atlantis myth as it had evolved by the end of the twentieth century. in this version, atlantis was literally a golden civilization in which gold was so plentiful that it was as common as steel is today in construction and infrastructure. the atlanteans traveled around the globe in fantastic flying ships. these same ships took them to other planets, including mars, where they left evidence of their presence in a gigantic structure (the mars face) and a number of pyramids on the martian surface. the moon was also a colony of atlantis. modern-day astronauts found ruins of walls and roads there but were silenced by a government determined to keep the truth about atlantis from the public. the de

t that was not all. according to the department of interplanetary affairs, atlantis s problems generated a world war that spread into space. atomic blasts decimated the moon colony. antimatter rays vaporized nearly all of atlantis s buildings and cities. it is said, the department reports, that one of these antimatter rays is still operating in the bermuda triangle and has been causing planes and ships to disappear. today that ray is out of control (omar, 1996. for all the allure of the atlantis legend, nothing of substance has come to light in the nearly twenty-five centuries that separate us from plato s account to lead reasonable people to conclude that such a lost continent ever graced the atlantic ocean. in imagining at- lantis (1998) richard ellis writes, plato s description of atlan

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d! baucis little good will marsh-land do us; on your own height keep your stand! philemon to the chapel let s awaying, there the sun s last rays behold, ring the bell and kneeling, praying, trust us to the god of old. palace spacious, ornamental garden; broad, straight canal. faust, in extreme old age, walking about, reflecting. lynceus [the warder, through a speaking-trumpet. the sun is setting, ships are nearing the safe home-port with song and cheer. a mighty barge is just appearing on the canal; twill soon be here. their motley flags the breeze caressing, the rigid masts stand up to view; in you the seaman finds his blessing, and fortune at your prime greets you. the little bell rings on the dune. faust [starting up] accursed bell! base clangour sending, it wounds like spiteful shot fr

e ll not be at least; he ll give the fleet feast after feast. tomorrow come the gay birds here; for them i shall provide good cheer. the cargo is taken away. mephistopheles [to faust. with gloomy gaze, with brow austere, of your supreme good luck you hear. high wisdom has been crowned. tis done, the shore and ocean are at one. now from the shore, for their swift trips, the willing ocean takes the ships. so say what s true: from this high place your arm doth all the world embrace. here it began: here once there stood the first rude shanty made of wood. a little ditch was dug away where busy oars now toss their spray. your will, your people s industry, have won the prize of earth and sea. from herefaust oh, that accursed here! that is the burden hard to bear. wise one, to you i must declare

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s says-'thebeloved of thelordshall dwell in safety by him; and the lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders' the armorial bearings of benjamin are- green, a wolf. these suit the character of (t )partly keen, partly of the nature of jupiter, and partly brutal.ofzebulon (v\)jacob says 'zebulon shall dwell at the haven of the sea, and he shall be for a haven of ships, and his border shall be unto sidon' moses says 'rejoice zebulon in thy going out, and issachar in thy tents, they shall call the people unto the mountain, there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they shall suck of the abundance of the sea, of the treasures hid in the sands' this suits well the tropical, earthy and watery signs of (v\)and (f:l!273).the armorial bearings of ze

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000 years. focalor governs 30 legions of spirits and is a powerful servitor to summon in dreaming (subconscious water leviathan) sorcery. he too has power of the air, being a luciferic angel as well. 57 p vepar vepar is the forty-second spirit of solomon whom is also recognized by vepar or vephar. this spirit is a great duke who appears as a female mermaid. he governs waters and was said to guide ships with armor and weapons. he also causes storms in the sea. in an initiatory context, vepar is a spirit who is of the leviathanc spirits, of the subconscious and water. in this, vepar appears in dreams as a fluid-like gray mermaid who has deep blue or black eyes. vepar may gather and guard servitors who go forth by the dreaming gnosis, and reveal secrets of the self long buried. vepar also cau

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s position in relation to the shore of lake titicaca hardly changed.2 throughout this epoch the principal harbour of the port city was located several hundred metres south-west of the kalasasaya at a site now known as puma punku (literally, the puma gate. here posnansky s excavations revealed two artificially dredged docks on either side of: a true and magnificent pier or wharf. where hundreds of ships could at the same time take on and unload their heavy burdens .3 one of the construction blocks from which the pier had been fashioned still lay on site and weighed an estimated 440 tons.4 numerous others weighed between 100 and 150 tons.5 furthermore, many of the biggest monoliths had clearly been joined to each other by i-shaped metal clamps. in the whole of south america, i knew, this mas

as accurate as the best we have today could have evolved only after thousands of years of development and experimentation. yet there was no evidence that any process of this kind had ever taken place in egypt. the great pyramid and its neighbours at giza had emerged out of a black hole in architectural history so deep and so wide that neither its bottom nor its far side had ever been identified. ships in the desert guided by the increasingly perspiring ali, who had not yet explained why it was necessary for us to circumnavigate the pyramid before climbing it, we now began to make our way in a westerly direction along the monument s southern side. here there were two further boat-shaped pits, one of which, although still sealed, had been investigated with fibre-optic cameras and was known

ter it had been built. with a displacement of around 40 tons, its design was particularly thought-provoking, incorporating, in the words of one expert, all the sea-going ship s characteristic properties, with prow and stern soaring upward, higher than in a viking ship, to ride out the breakers and high seas, not to contend with the little ripples of the nile. 6 4 ibid, p. 87. 5 see lionel casson, ships and seafaring in ancient times, university of texas press, 1994, p. 17; the ra expeditions, p. 15. 6 the ra expeditions, p. 17. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 273 another authority felt that the careful and clever design of this strange pyramid boat could potentially have made it a far more seaworthy craft than anything available to columbus .7 moreover, the experts agreed that it h

ar at abydos apparently throughout the span of ancient egyptian history. it seemed to me that there was a sense in which they guarded the mysteries still. for what was the osireion if was not a huge, unsolved mystery that deserved closer scrutiny than it has received from the scholars whose job it is to look into these matters? and what was the burial in the desert of twelve high-prowed, seagoing ships if not also a mystery that cried out, loudly, for solution? it was the burial place of those ships i was now crossing the cemeteries of the jackal gods to see: the guardian, london, 21 december 1991: a fleet of 5000-year-old royal ships has been found buried eight miles from the nile. american and egyptian archaeologists discovered the 12 large wooden boats at abydos. experts said the boats

of those ships i was now crossing the cemeteries of the jackal gods to see: the guardian, london, 21 december 1991: a fleet of 5000-year-old royal ships has been found buried eight miles from the nile. american and egyptian archaeologists discovered the 12 large wooden boats at abydos. experts said the boats which are 50 to 60 feet long are about 5000 years old, making them egypt s earliest royal ships and among the earliest boats found anywhere. the experts say the ships, discovered in september, were probably meant for burial so the souls of the pharaohs could be transported on them. we never expected to find such a fleet, especially so far from the nile, said david o connor, the expedition leader and curator of the egyptian section of the university museum of graham hancock fingerprints

he abydos fleet (to around 4500 bc) showed the same long, sleek, high-prowed vessels in action.34 could an experienced race of ancient seafarers have become involved with the indigenous inhabitants of the nile valley at some indeterminate period before the official beginning of history at around 3000 bc? wouldn t this explain egypt s curious and paradoxical but nonetheless enduring obsession with ships in the desert (and references to what sounded like sophisticated ships in the pyramid texts, including one said to have been more than 2000 feet long)?35 in raising these conjectures, i did not doubt that religious symbolism had existed in ancient egypt in which, as scholars endlessly pointed out, ships had been designated as vessels for the pharaoh s soul. nevertheless that symbolism did no

amid texts, including one said to have been more than 2000 feet long)?35 in raising these conjectures, i did not doubt that religious symbolism had existed in ancient egypt in which, as scholars endlessly pointed out, ships had been designated as vessels for the pharaoh s soul. nevertheless that symbolism did not solve the problem posed by the high level of technological achievement of the buried ships; such evolved and sophisticated designs called for a long period of development. wasn t it worth looking into the possibility even if only to rule it out that the giza and abydos vessels could have been parts of a cultural legacy, not of a land-loving, riverside-dwelling, agricultural people like the indigenous ancient egyptians but of an advanced seafaring nation? such seafarers could have

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) and, from its resemblance to a burning wisp of straw, irwisch and on the rhine heerwisch; in- austria feuriger mann and fucldelmann (hofer 1, 251) fromfuchteln to burnish or jerk to and fro, viz. the fiery blade^ in 1 in lausitz the ignis lambens that plays about the tops of forest trees is called feuermann, laus. mouatsscbr. 1797. p. 7-19. 2 these fiery exlialations also settle on the masts of ships, marienleg. 87, 96, or the spears of warriors. the former kind the ancients named after the dioscuri, pliny 2, 37, the moderns call it 'feu de st. elme' for the flaming spears i have old authorities' signa (also, pila) militum arsere' tac. ann. 12, 64. 15, 7' duae puerorum lanceae, emissis flammis, lumen euntibus praebueruut, ibantque fulgurautes hastue' greg. tur. mirac. mart. 1, 10. and a

n the battlements of his castle, and uttering hidden words, raised cloiuls, rain and storm, which scattered his foes (a.d. 1382. the witches of norway still proceed exactly as the vinlanders were said to do (p. 640: they tie up wind and foul weather in a hag, and at the proper moment undo the knots, exclaiming' wind, in the devil's name' then a storm rushes out, lays waste the land, and overturns ships at sea. by hartlieb's account (sup. h, cap. 34, old women sacrifice to devils, that they may make jiail and shower. according to german records of the 16-17 cent, witches assemble in crowds by waterbrooks or lakes, and flog the water loith rods, till a fog rises, which gradually thickens into black clouds; on these clouds they are borne up, and then guide them toward the spots to which they

1620 a will a' wisp settled on the general's' sometimes these' lieimen or grillen' mean prosperity to the house, sup. i, 313. 609. 2' examen apum in arbore praetorio imminente consederat' livy 21, 46' fastigium capitolii examen apium insedit' tac. auu. 12, 64. bees. flames. things found. 1137 flag, and was taken for a pledge of victory. this too is the dioscuri's /ame, that shone on the masts of ships, a saving sign under stress of storm. further, a candle that sneezes (spits, a brand that snaps over (sup. i, 889) betoken guests again; a candle that goes out, death (150; one that hums roses (forms wickheads, good luck (252. to spill oil or wine, to pour ivater under the table, were signs to the ancients, one good, the other bad. the table squeaking, the rafters creaking, justified the glo

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n horus is poisoned, she stops the progress of the solar barque across the heavens until he is cured. by the later new kingdom, isis was often shown in the solar barque with ra. this was one of the roles she took over from the goddess hathor. the cult of isis became more and more prominent during the first millennium bce. she began to be honored as the goddess of the sea, responsible for bringing ships safely to harbor. the greeks identified isis with demeter, the harvest goddess who perpetually searched for a lost child. in her stellar form of sopdet/sothis, isis had always been linked with the coming of the inundation that made the harvest possible. she was now credited with inventing agriculture and all manner of useful crafts and institutions. according to hymns of the greco-roman peri

buchis bulls were revered as manifestations of the twin souls of ra and osiris. each buchis bull had a staff of twenty. he wore crowns and necklaces and a face net to keep off flies. see also cattle; ra; satet and anuket references and further reading: e. k. werner. the god montu: from the earliest attestations to the end of the old kingdom. ann arbor, mi: 1986. e. k. werner. montu and the falcon ships of the eighteenth dynasty. journal of the american research center in egypt 23 (1986: 107 123. primary sources: pt 503; sphinx stela of amenhotep ii; qadesh inscriptions moon a variety of male and female deities was associated with aspects of the moon. the god who personified the moon itself was called iah (yah, but he never gained great importance in cult or myth. khonsu and thoth were majo

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ant, and with the queer gleaming of his windows at all hours of night, was not very clear to the townsfolk; and they were prone to assign other reasons for his continued youth and longevity. it was held, for the most part, that curwen's incessant mixings and boilings of chemicals had much to do with his condition. gossip spoke of the strange substances he brought from london and the indies on his ships or purchased in newport, boston, and new york; and when old dr. jabez bowen came from rehoboth and opened his apothecary shop across the great bridge at the sign of the unicorn and mortar, there was ceaseless talk of the drugs, acids, and metals that the taciturn recluse incessantly bought or ordered from him. acting on the assumption that curwen possessed a wondrous and secret medical skill

d the infinite rum, slave, and molasses sloops, the rakish privateers, and the great brigs of the browns, crawfords, and tillinghasts, all made strange furtive signs of protection when they saw the slim, deceptively young-looking figure with its yellow hair and slight stoop entering the curwen warehouse in doubloon street or talking with captains and supercargoes on the long quay where the curwen ships rode restlessly. curwen's own clerks and captains hated and feared him, and all his sailors were mongrel riff-raff from martinique, st. eustatius, havana, or port royal. it was, in a way, the frequency with which these sailors were replaced which inspired the acutest and most tangible part of the fear in which the old man was held. a crew would be turned loose in the town on shore leave, som

provisions of the sugar act which hampered a prominent traffick. smuggling and evasion were the rule in narragansett bay, and nocturnal landings of illicit cargoes were continuous commonplaces. but weeden, night after night following the lighters or small sloops which he saw steal off from the curwen warehouses at the town street docks, soon felt assured that it was not merely his majesty's armed ships which the sinister skulker was anxious to avoid. prior to the change in 1766 these boats had for the most part contained chained negroes, who were carried down and across the bay and landed at an obscure point on the shore just north of pawtuxet; being afterward driven up the bluff and across country to the curwen farm, where they were locked in that enormous stone outbuilding which had only

r, the whole programme was altered. importation of slaves ceased at once, and for a time curwen abandoned his midnight sailings. then, about the spring of 1767, a new policy appeared. once more the lighters grew wont to put out from the black, silent docks, and this time they would go down the bay some distance, perhaps as far as namquit point, where they would meet and receive cargo from strange ships of considerable size and widely varied appearance. curwen's sailors would then deposit this cargo at the usual point on the shore, and transport it overland to the farm; locking it in the same cryptical stone building which had formerly received the negroes. the cargo consisted almost wholly of boxes and cases, of which a large proportion were oblong and heavy and disturbingly suggestive of

of february (o.s) 1662-3; and that he had run away to sea at the age of fifteen, not appearing again for nine years, when he returned with the speech, dress, and manners of a native englishman and settled in salem proper. at that time he had little to do with his family, but spent most of his hours with the curious books he had brought from europe, and the strange chemicals which came for him on ships from england, france, and holland. certain trips of his into the country were the objects of much local inquisitiveness, and were whisperingly associated with vague rumours of fires on the hills at night. curwen's only close friends had been one edward hutchinson of salem-village and one simon orne of salem. with these men he was often seen in conference about the common, and visits among th

d after their long oblivion. dwight had begun at the bottom; hence since the picture was a three-quarter-length one, the face did not come out for some time. it was meanwhile seen that the subject was a spare, well-shaped man with dark-blue coat, embroidered waistcoat, black satin small-clothes, and white silk stockings, seated in a carved chair against the background of a window with wharves and ships beyond. when the head came out it was observed to bear a neat albemarle wig, and to possess a thin, calm, undistinguished face which seemed somehow familiar to both ward and the artist. only at the very last, though, did the restorer and his client begin to grasp with astonishment at the details of that lean, pallid visage, and to recognise with a touch of awe the dramatic trick which heredi

it left the place a awful shape. never came back- there can't be more'n 300 or 400 people living there now "but the real thing behind the way folks feel is simply race prejudice- and i don't say i'm blaming those that hold it i hate those innsmouth folks myself, and i wouldn't care to go to their town. i s'pose you know- though i can see you're a westerner by your talk- what a lot our new england ships- used to have to do with queer ports in africa, asia, the south seas, and everywhere else, and what queer kinds of people they sometimes brought back with 'em. you've probably heard about the salem man that came home with a chinese wife, and maybe you know there's still a bunch of fiji islanders somewhere around cape cod "well, there must be something like that back of the innsmouth people

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

ist- and myself, representing geology and having nominal command- besides sixteen assistants: seven graduate students from miskatonic and nine skilled mechanics. of these sixteen, twelve were qualified aeroplane pilots, all but two of whom were competent wireless operators. eight of them understood navigation with compass and sextant, as did pabodie, atwood, and i. in addition, of course, our two ships- wooden ex-whalers, reinforced for ice conditions and having auxiliary steam- were fully manned. the nathaniel derby pickman foundation, aided by a few special contributions, financed the expedition; hence our preparations were extremely thorough, despite the absence of great publicity. the dogs, sledges, machines, camp materials, and unassembled parts of our five planes were delivered in bo

lers, reinforced for ice conditions and having auxiliary steam- were fully manned. the nathaniel derby pickman foundation, aided by a few special contributions, financed the expedition; hence our preparations were extremely thorough, despite the absence of great publicity. the dogs, sledges, machines, camp materials, and unassembled parts of our five planes were delivered in boston, and there our ships were loaded. we were marvelously well-equipped for our specific purposes, and in all matters pertaining to supplies, regimen, transportation, and camp construction we profited by the excellent example of our many recent and exceptionally brilliant predecessors. it was the unusual number and fame of these predecessors which made our own expedition- ample though it was- so little noticed by th

the barren shore, and on the lofty ice barrier in the background, myriads of grotesque penguins squawked and flapped their fins, while many fat seals were visible on the water, swimming or sprawling across large cakes of slowly drifting ice. using small boats, we effected a difficult landing on ross island shortly after midnight on the morning of the 9th, carrying a line of cable from each of the ships and preparing to unload supplies by means of a breeches-buoy arrangement. our sensations on first treading antarctic soil were poiguant and complex, even though at this particular point the scott and shackleton expeditions had preceded us. our camp on the frozen shore below the volcano s slope was only a provisional one, headquarters being kept aboard the arkham. we landed all our drilling a

he thermometer varied between zero and 20 or 25 above, and our experience with new england winters had accustomed us to rigors of this sort. the barrier camp was semi-permanent, and destined to be a storage cache for gasoline, provisions, dynamite, and other supplies. only four of our planes were needed to carry the actual exploring material, the fifth being left with a pilot and two men from the ships at the storage cache to form a means of reaching us from the arkham in case all our exploring planes were lost. later, when not using all the other planes for moving apparatus, we would employ one or two in a shuttle transportation service between this cache and another permanent base on the great plateau from six hundred to seven hundred miles southward, beyond beardmore glacier. despite th

on s altered character. obviously, lake s boring operations, as well as his aeroplane activities, would require a great deal for the new base which he planned to establish at the foot of the mountains; and it was possible that the eastward flight might not be made, after all, this season. in connection with this business i called captain douglas and asked him to get as much as possible out of the ships and up the barrier with the single dog team we had left there. a direct route across the unknown region between lake and mcmurdo sound was what we really ought to establish. lake called me later to say that he had decided to let the camp stay where moulton s plane had been forced down, and where repairs had already progressed somewhat. the ice sheet was very thin, with dark ground here and t

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

it left the place a awful shape. never came back-there can't be more'n 300 or 400 people living there now "but the real thing behind the way folks feel is simply race prejudice- and i don't say i'm blaming those that hold it i hate those innsmouth folks myself, and i wouldn't care to go to their town. i s'pose you know- though i can see you're a westerner by your talk- what a lot our new england ships- used to have to do with queer ports in africa, asia, the south seas, and everywhere else, and what queer kinds of people they sometimes brought back with 'em. you've probably heard about the salem man that came home with a chinese wife, and maybe you know there's still a bunch of fiji islanders somewhere around cape cod "well, there must be something like that back of the innsmouth people

w there's still a bunch of fiji islanders somewhere around cape cod "well, there must be something like that back of the innsmouth people. the place always was badly cut off from the rest of the country by marshes and creeks and we can't be sure about the ins and outs of the matter; but it's pretty clear that old captain marsh must have brought home some odd specimens when he had all three of his ships in commission back in the twenties and thirties. there certainly is a strange kind of streak in the innsmouth forks today- i don't know how to explain it but it sort of makes you crawl. you'll notice a little in sargent if you take his bus. some of 'em have queer narrow heads with flat noses and bulgy, starry eyes that never seem to shut, and their skin ain't quite right. rough and scabby, a

but the sight of old zadok allen set up new currents in my mind and made me slacken my pace uncertainly. i had been assured that the old man could do nothing but hint at wild, disjointed, and incredible legends, and i had been warned that the natives made it unsafe to be seen talk-ing with him; yet the thought of this aged witness to the town's decay, with memories going back to the early days of ships and factories, was a lure that no amount of reason could make me resist. after all, the strangest and maddest of myths are often merely symbols or allegories based upon truth- and old zadok must have seen everything which went on around innsmouth for the last ninety years. curiosity flared up beyond sense and caution, and in my youthful egotism i fancied i might be able to sift a nucleus of

a bottom no saoundin'-line kin tech. ol' cap'n obed done it- him that faound aout more'n was good fer him in the saouth sea islands "everybody was in a bad way them days. trade fallin' off, mills losin' business- even the new ones- an' the best of our menfolks kilt aprivateerin' in the war of 1812 or lost with the elizy brig an' the ranger scow- both on 'em gilman venters. obed marsh he had three ships afloat- brigantine columby, brig hefty, an' barque sumatry queen. he was the only one as kep' on with the east-injy an' pacific trade, though esdras martin's barkentine malay bride made a venter as late as twenty-eight "never was nobody like cap'n obed- old limb o' satan! heh, heh! i kin mind him a-tellin' abaout furren parts, an' callin' all the folks stupid for goin' to christian meetin' a

HP LOVECRAFT THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN

the inhabitants of kingsport say and think many things about the terrible old man which generally keep him safe from the attention of gentlemen like mr. ricci and his colleagues, despite the almost certain fact that he hides a fortune of indefinite magnitude somewhere about his musty and venerable abode. he is, in truth, a very strange person, believed to have been a captain of east india clipper ships in his day; so old that no one can remember when he was young, and so taciturn that few know his real name. among the gnarled trees in the front yard of his aged and neglected place he maintains a strange collection of large stones, oddly grouped and painted so that they resemble the idols in some obscure eastern temple. this collection frightens away most of the small boys who love to taunt

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

f the chariot leaped a bull and a dog, which follow'd him [the bull, and seem'd to bait him. these also went northwards, as the former had done, the bull first, holding p. 153 his head downwards, then the dog, and then the chariot, till all sunk down one after another about the same place, and just in the same manner as the former. these meteors being vanished, there were several appearances like ships and other things. the whole time of the vision lasted near an hour, and it was a very clear and calm evening, no cloud seen, no mist, nor any wind stirring. all the phenomena came out of the west or southwest, and all moved northwards; they all sunk out of sight much about the same place. of the whole company there was not any one but saw all these things, as above-written, whose names follo

ISIS UNVEILED

sunday. however, whatever oth^ circumstance may be regarded as a prophecy, the story of jonah cannot be made to answer the purpose 'big fish' is cetus, the latinized form of ketos (k^tos, and ketos is dagon, poseidon, the feminine form of it being keton atar-gatis the syrian goddess, and venus, of askalon" the figure or bust of der- ketos, or astarte, was generally represented on the prow of the ships. jonah (hebrew, for dove; a bird sacred to venus) fled to jaffa, where the god dagon, the man-fish, was worshiped, and dared not go to nineveh, v^icre the dose wag revered. hence some commentators believe that when jonah was thrown overboard and was swallowed by a fish, we must understand that he was picked up by one of these vessels, on the prow of which was the figure of ketot. but the kab

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

a letter of the great alphabet. the familiar london streets, even, can give thee the persian s god: though in thy pleasures, and in thy commerce-operations, thou so oft forgettest thine own god. whence liberated are those sparks? as stars, afar off, of a whole sky of flame; sparks, deep down in possibility, though close to us; great in their meaning, though, small in their show; as distant single ships of whole fiery fleets; animate children of, in thy human conception, a dreadful, but, in reality, a great world, of which thou knowest nothing. they fall, foodless, on the rejecting, barren, and (on the outside) the coldest stone. but in each stone, flinty and chilly as the outside is, is a heart of fire, to strike at which is to bid gush forth the waters, as it were, of very fire, like wate

speculations of the rosicrucians. fig. 58. figures on the egyptian sarcophagus in the british museum. fig. 59. the eminences, st. michael's mount and mont st- michel, were dedicated by the phoenicians to the sun-god fig. 57. 212 the rosicrucians (hercules, as the hydra or dragon-slayer. these mounts in the channel are secondary hercules pillars, similar to calpe and abyla. figs. 60, 61. heads of ships: a. fiddle-head; b, c, d. gondola; e. ceres reaping-hook, also saturn; f. blade and fasces; g. beak of galley; h. glaive; i. prow of grecian galley. the architectural genealogy of the tower or steeple displays other phases of the alterations of the upright. all towers are descendants of the biblical votive stones, and fig. 62. stonehenge. in multiplying have changed in aspect according to th

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

ude rubber in the headwaters of the amazon, though no date is given. he made archeological studies of the maya in the jungles of central america for the carnegie institute of washington. without identifying the source of sponsorship or financing, the jacket states that he explored inca ruins in peru, and concluded that the stonework he found there had been erected by the levitating power of space ships in antediluvian times. also: mr. jessup s latest explorations have taken him to the high plateau of mexico where he has discovered an extensive group of craters. they are as large as, and similar to, the mysterious lunar craters linne and hyginus n, and he believes them to have been made by objects from space. they are presently under study by means of aerial photography and the study will b

authors did not know that their references had any bearing, for the subject did not then exist. the writers were recording such things as met their senses solely through an honest effort to report inexplicable observational data. hoping, in those days, that something would "come of it" nowadays, science is afraid that "something will come of it" it will, too, in 1956 or 57 the air force will have ships like these in appearance& will "feel" safe to announce that human eyes have seen saucers from outer space but to not be worried because "we too have these ships" oh! brother what a farce! ours will be jet propelled not m propelled. some of my contemporaries have attempted to prove that all of these phenomena are, in some way or other, illusory, and that in any case they do not involve flight

s are real 3 there is intelligence in space 9 short-cut to space travel 15 the home of the ufo's 20 are ufo's russian? 22 space flights: common denominator 24 part ii meteorology speaks falling ice 28 falling stones 32 falling live things 37 falling animal and organic matter 40 falling shaped things 45 falls of water 52 clouds and storms 56 rubbish in space 60 part iii history speaks disappearing ships and crews 65 teleportation or kidnapping? 75 levitation 84 marks and "footprints" 91 disappearing planes 97 fireballs and lights 101 legends 106 part iv astronomy speaks the incredible decade 115 ufo's against the sun 119 location of ufo's 125 ufo patrol 128 the height of the puzzle 133 the case is proved! 137 a note on sources 144 list of illustrations a flying saucer photographed over bras

at the time invisible in a philadelphia newspaper. under harcohypnosis i can be enabled to divulge the name, date& section& page number of that paper& the other one. thus this papers "morgue" will divulge even more positive proof already published of this experiment. the name of the reporter who skeptically covered& wrote of these incidents (of the restaurant-barroom raid while invisible& of the ships sudden awol) and who interviewed the waitresses can thus be found, thus his and the waitresses testimony can be added to the records. once on this track, i believe that you can uncover considerably more evidence to sustain this (what would you call it--scandal or discovery) you would need a dale carneigie to maneuver these folks into doing just as you wish. it would be cheaper than paying ev

them--but what are they" mr. arnold undoubtedly asked. and no one had the answer. since that memorable day, thousands of other sightings have been reported and verified, and still the question must be asked "what are they" but more importantly, where do they come from, what is their purpose here, and if they can do it, why can't we? are they russian secret weapons? not worry, jemi, those were l-m ships, not "s" men. they are an improved type& were only on a training flight. that is why their leader inter-connected their force-fields-to teach them ion level tele23 control without inducing a fear-block1 which they, too, get when "mowing the lawn" several well-documented volumes have been devoted to listings of sightings, to reports by everyone from boy scouts and families on picnics to astro

ing merely the debris of space. an ordinary iron-nickel meteorite from space is inorganic within the sphere of our present definition; but if this meteorite arrives on earth shaped like a seven-headed malayan goddess, or a compound microscope, it's organic. a second major category stands out in the bibliography of oddities. it is the great area of events which encompasses disappearing people, and ships; airplanes and airships crashing and disappearing without trace and without warning; instantaneous and mysterious transportations of people and things; inexplicable tracks and marks, such as the devil's footprints of devonshire, and the "cup-marks" found in stone over much of the world; the organically shaped meteorites found in tertiary rock and coal formations; evidences of levitation and

, less puzzling than events which directly involve people, or which were clearly current actions and not merely things which may have been operated in distant times and places. among those phenomena involving people, the sudden disappearances are probably the most amazing. some have disappeared instantly, while being watched by friends and close relatives. crews have mysteriously disappeared from ships- sometimes within sight of their home port--without warning and without trace. heh! if he only knew why, he'd dy of shock. there are too many instances of planes and ships disappearing for us to ignore them. one plane is reported to have flown into a cloud from which it never emerged, while the crew of a blimp disappeared before the eyes of dozens of watchers. we are still wondering what hap

KETAB E SIYAH

ir race was magnificent shurupuk between the two rivers. high were the walls of shurupuk and bright with beaten bronze; strong were the towers of shurupuk and bright with flags that danced like flames in wind from the mountains and sentries stood upon the high ramparts and kept vigil over the most distant frontiers of the empire. from the fertile fields and from distant lands as tribute, from the ships that traded upon the tigris and euphrates, all the riches of the world were brought to shurupuk: gold and silver, cedar and purpure, bright lapis lazuli, birds and beasts of a thousand shapes, grain and wine. 209 all that the earth might give up was brought to shurupuk. wet with milk and wine or else the blood of beasts were my altars in shurupuk and my temples were richly appointed. devoted

race of men, unresisting of their will. against this end must we work and swiftly for their crime already moves, gaining impetus to its conclusion. upon this counter-plot have i resolved, not all the nephilim might be saved for even those that are spared the waters shall the elohim strike down in weakness. 258 not all can be saved this fate and there is no means to avert it. rather i shall ready ships of my own to bear away some number of the noble to weigh even against ignoble noah's kin that the new race of men may know some part of that which is fine and right. this fleet of our own we shall defend against those hosts that heaven sends to consummate their villainy and make good the slaughter. shedim and nephilim shall stand as one against the elohim and tax a harsh due in blood for thi

he king escape such a doom that you do dictate to me when, that he might, he must condemn his people to that which he would elude? this is no honourable act but shameful most extremely and is not to be pursued. i will act upon that knowledge that you grant me for foolish is the king that ignores such intelligence but whilst their is yet one of my people that might live in my place, going upon the ships prepared to carry our breathing frames from the waves' embrace, then that one shall one shall go in my place and utanapishtim shall die beneath the water. this is the way of true king yet you would ask me to abandon my people. thus do i refuse your counsel" joy and sorrow were at once in me, hearing these words of the nephilim king. now i knew that there was one amongst them that i had made

and your intent are not governed by wisdom but by the heart's lament and your wit is distempered by rightful wrath. wrath shall not avail in this time and when anguish is most justified it is of the least service. such a dire peril as this must be faced, possessing full capacity of wit and wisdom. were that the waters of the flood all that there was to fear at this time but it is not so for those ships that defy the will of the elohim shall be struck down and consigned to the ocean's lower depths as appeasement to unforgiving leviathan. that which water cannot destroy shall be undone by flame and steel. even did you send one in your place they would die where you would live. utanapishtim is the greatest of his people when the battle is joined with blasting horns and his great mace is as th

s and princes that the race of nephilim may be born again after they have been swept away by heaven. this you must do and swiftly 267 or it may not be done at all" now utanapishtim bowed his head and acknowledged the wisdom of my counsel. he turned from me and the altar and went from the ziggurat to give command to his admirals. thus the navy set to their toil and made ready for long voyage seven ships, fine and firm. high were their masts, of cedar, and painted with dragon faces were the prows. the white sails, filled with wind, bore bright the temple's seal and the hulls were made splendid with gold. beneath the waters brazen beaks reflected sunlight and broke the skin of the waves into white froth and yearned to shatter the timbers of the foe. thus was made ready the ships of shurupuk t

endid with gold. beneath the waters brazen beaks reflected sunlight and broke the skin of the waves into white froth and yearned to shatter the timbers of the foe. thus was made ready the ships of shurupuk that would bear on white wings the hopes of nephilim and shedim. from the tigris' throat went the fleet, bearing utanapishtim and his knights from the kingdom between two rivers, went the seven ships into the gulf that put water between arabia and persia. upon the shore gathered the people of shurupuk and with bright flags waved upon his voyage their king and his lords though they knew not, not upon the ships or upon the shore, to which harbour sailed white-sailed vessels but utanapishtim alone nurtured in his heart that most bitter intelligence and bit back tears as he hailed his most l

ieked the wind amongst the trees, tearing from them leaves and wood and everywhere both man and beast sought shelter from the coming rains. as the sun descended to die once more in the western sky it was seen not save for the crimson staining of the fatal clouds. and the rains fell and ceased not. marvelled did they of shurupuk's fleet at the unceasing rain that fell throughout the night upon the ships. so heavy was the air with water that the men of shurupuk that sailed upon those ships spared heaven's wrath thought that they were already beneath the waves and that those that forsook the shelter of the inner parts of the ships were struck to the floor by the weight of rain. moon and stars illumined not that first night but the fleet was cast into utter darkness for those torches lighted t

LAITMAN M KABBALAH REVEALED

l. let s clarify this with an example. in the film, what the bleep do we know, dr. candace pert explains that if a certain form does not exist within me in advance, i will not be able to see it on the outside. as an example, she uses a story about indians who stood on the ocean shore and looked at columbus s armada arriving. she says that it is commonly believed that the indians could not see the ships, even though they were looking straight at them. dr. pert explained that the indians couldn t see the ships because they didn t have a similar preexisting model of ships in their minds. only the shaman, who was curious about the odd ripples that seemed to come from nowhere, discovered the ships after trying to imagine what could be causing the ripples. when he discovered the ships, he told h

ed that the indians couldn t see the ships because they didn t have a similar preexisting model of ships in their minds. only the shaman, who was curious about the odd ripples that seemed to come from nowhere, discovered the ships after trying to imagine what could be causing the ripples. when he discovered the ships, he told his tribesmen, described what he saw, and then they, too, could see the ships. 110 kabbalah revealed kabbalistically speaking, it takes an inner kli to detect an outer object. in fact, the kelim (plural for kli) not only detect the outer reality, they create it! thus, columbus armada existed only in the minds, the inner kelim of the indians who saw it and reported it. there is no such thing as an outside world. there are desires, kelim that create the outside world ac

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

l phenomenon as long as it is not present in a similar form in that person s mind. the film, what the bleep do we know, offers a good example of that concept with a story about the native americans who pa r t i i i: p e r c e p t i o n o f r e a l i t y 122 watched columbus armada arrive at the shores of america. the story has it that the indians standing at the seashore couldn t actually see the ships that anchored not far from land. the shaman, an imaginative man, was troubled by the unusual movement of the ripples without any apparent reason. for many hours he gazed at the water trying to figure out what was causing the ripples. through his efforts, he finally managed to discern the shape of the body that produced the ripples and thus was able to see the ships. subsequently, he describe

own shape until one begins to see the actual light. this is the only way to advance, since only the light can build the vessels within us. in truth, we cannot imagine what is actually happening around us even now. we are surrounded by worlds and powers that we cannot sense for lack of equivalence of form. a c av e m a n i n t o da y s wo r l d if we think some more about the indians and columbus ships we might ask this: if a caveman were to be born in today s world, would he see the cars and the buildings? the answer is that he would not. would he then bump into buildings or be hit by a car as soon as he left the sidewalk? before we answer these questions, we must understand that we perceive only such forms that our senses are equipped to detect. for example, the air around us, which seem

eak that barrier without drawing the light found in kabbalah books, because these are the only texts that were written from the other side. one s desire to get there along with the study of the right kabbalistic texts draws light upon that person and builds within that person s soul the forms in which one perceives the spiritual realm. just like the shaman had to build the right shapes to see the ships, we have to build forms of bestowal to be in the spiritual realm. 133 r e g a i n i n g c o n s c i o u s n e s s u s a n d t h e wo r l d from birth, we have the tools to perceive the physical reality. within these tools are information bits about the states and shapes that we are destined to realize the reshimot. through education and environmental influence our tools evolve until we have

LEWIS JAMES SATANISM TODAY AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION FOLKLORE AND POPULAR CULTURE

the performer disappears. the minions from hell find him and return him to the down under. as the movie ends, he is driving off in the limo that says, just married. devil s triangle the devil s triangle also known as the bermuda triangle is a watery area whose boundaries are florida, bermuda, and puerto rico. in an associated press article on september 16, 1950, reporter e. v. w. jones wrote that ships were disappearing mysteriously between florida and devil s triangle 71 bermuda. a fate piece in 1952 was the first to advance the notion of a triangle. throughout the 1950s writers such as m. k. jessup, frank edwards, and donald e. keyhoe speculated that extraterrestrial spacecraft were snatching planes and ships (or their crews. in the february 1964 issue of the men s magazine argosy, vince

e mysterious events there. if so, it is not the only one, according to some. there is also the devil s sea, southeast of japan. sanderson expanded the concept, claiming that there are ten v lie vortices, as he called them, stretched in parallel bands at equal distances above and below the equator, 72 degrees apart. in these lozenge-shaped regions oints other intelligences operate freely, grabbing ships and aircraft, moving freely through space and time in machines we call ufos. sanderson did hold these entities in high regard: the oints, he claimed bermuda triangle: were the missing ships sucked into a giant whirlpool (dezs sternoczky/sufoi/fortean picture library) 72 diabolus in musica (his italics, are, at least from our present point of view and as of this date, incredibly and abysmally

hnson, and george hass.his fancy was captured by fictional characters found in the works of jack london, in comic strip characters (like ming the merciless, as well as historical figures of a diabolical cast such as cagliostro, rasputin and basil zaharoff. he was more interested in books of applied obscure knowledge such as dr. william wesley cook s practical lessons in hypnotism, jane s fighting ships, and manuals of handwriting analysis than in the available occult literature, most of which he dismissed as sanctimonious white magic. his musical abilities were noticed early, and he was given free rein by his parents to try his hand at various instruments. lavey was mainly attracted to the keyboards because of their scope and versatility. he found time to practice and could easily reproduc

a direct influence on gerald gardner. 1939 in england, gerald b. gardner establishes the kernel of what will become modern wicca. 1948 our lady of endor coven, known also as the ophite cultus satanas, is founded by herbert arthur sloane of toledo, ohio. 1950 the legend of the devil s triangle also known as the bermuda triangle begins with an associated press article calling attention to the many ships that had mysteriously disappeared between florida and bermuda. 1951 the very last british antiwitchcraft law which had been enacted in 1736 is repealed because of lobbying by spiritualist churches. 1963 the process church of the final judgement (or the process) is founded in england by robert de grimston and his wife,mary anne maclean. 1966 anton lavey announces the formation of the church o

LIBER ALEPH

nt by giving it light, air, food, and exercise as its nature requireth. so also, mutatis mutandis, do thou cherish the health of thy mind. m liber aleph vel cxi 62 bi de relatione illusionum (of the relation of illusions) f this will i speak further with thee, for here behold a great rock of ignorance on the one hand, and on the other a whirlpool of error; in this strait are many wrecks of magick ships. knowest thou not that riddle of old, whether it be lawful to pay tribute to caesar or no? give therefore to the body the things of the body, and to the mind the things of the mind. yet because of the interior harmony of all things that proceedeth from their original one nature, there is action and reaction of the one upon the other, as i have already set forth in this mine epistle. but law

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE

57. then was the adept glad, and lifted his arm. lo! an earthquake, and plague, and terror on the earth! a casting down of them that sate in high places; a famine upon the multitude. 58. and the grape fell ripe and rich into his mouth. 59. stained is the purple of thy mouth, o brilliant one, with the white glory of the lips of adonai. 60. the foam of the grape is like the storm upon the sea; the ships tremble and shudder, the shipmaster is afraid. 61. that is thy drunkenness, o holy one, and the winds whirl away the soul of the scribe into the happy haven. 62. o lord god! let the haven be cast down by the fury of the storm! let the foam of the grape tincture my soul with thy light! 63. bacchus grew old, and was silenus; pan was ever pan for ever and ever more throughout the aons. 64. into

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

iber cxcvii 56 his brain befooled, his pocket picked. how the beast cachinnated then, far from that doleful derelict sir palamede the saracen! 57 xxiv .one thing at least (quoth palamede .beyond dispute my soul can see: this questing beast that mocks my need dwelleth in deep obscurity. so delveth he a darksome hole within the bowels of etna dense, closing the harbour of his soul to all the pirate-ships of sense. and now the questing of the beast rolls in his very self, and high leaps his whole heart in fiery feast on the expected ecstasy. but echoing from the central roar reverberates many a mournful moan, and shapes more mystic than before baffle its formless monotone! ah! mocks him many a myriad vision, warring within him masterless, turning devotion to derision, beatitude to beastliness

LINDOW JOHN NORSE MYTHOLOGY A GUIDE TO THE GODS HEROES RITUALS AND BELIEFS

ing h originally meant is not known; the european writers, mostly clergymen, who made it famous painted a fairly clear picture of pagan marauders who destroyed and despoiled wherever they went. certainly there is some truth to such a picture, especially in the early part of the viking age, when the scandinavian sailors do seem to have had military advantages, with their light, swift, maneuverable ships. but it is important to consider that there were individual forays, larger expeditions, armies wintering in england and on the continent, and, finally, the north sea empire of cnut the great. besides this military activity there was continuous trade and a pattern of settlement in the lands to which the scandinavian ships came. some of these lands were already settled, such as the french coas

ter the last harvest was in, and the animals slaughtered would be those that were not to survive the winter. some of their meat could be eaten fresh at the blot, but much would be preserved for winter. the midwinter blot would occur after the longest nights had passed and would celebrate the rebirth of the earth; and the summer ceremony, if it was for victory, would coincide with the departure of ships on raiding (and, more mundanely, trading) voyages. later in his heimskringla, in hakonar saga goda (the saga of hakon the good, snorri gives an elaborate description of a blot that shows just how perva- introduction 35 sive the influence of christian liturgy was on the view of late nordic paganism of snorri and other icelandic intellectuals. the word hlaut is cognate with english glot, h as

tolkien (london: t. nelson, 1960. garm dog, gbest of hounds h according to grimnismal, stanza 44. the stanza is recited by odin as he hangs in the fire at the home of king geirrod toward the end of the poem and just before he begins the recitation of his names that culminates in an epiphany. stanza 44 has a list of things that are best in the mythological world: yggdrasil of trees, skidbladnir of ships, odin of asir, sleipnir of horses, bilrost of bridges, bragi of skalds, habrok of hawks, and, finally, garm of hounds. in this company we would expect garm to be a positive figure, but in his only other appearance in poetry, repeated three times more or less verbatim in voluspa (stanzas 44, 49, and 58, he is anything but: garm howls loudly before gnipahellir the bond will burst, and the wolf

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

a good example of the interplay between biology and culture. as for cultural drift, first recall that genetic drift is caused by chance, especially when small populations or population bottlenecks (reductions in number of individuals) are involved. a good example of cultural drift is that of puritanism and puritanical culture in the united states. the puritans who came on the mayflower and other ships like it were few in numbers. in effect, they represented a religious (cultural) bottleneck because their denomination was not representative of european religious currents of the time. 106 evolution and religious creation myths nonetheless, the puritans were successful in america, so much so that many aspects of original puritanism (such as work ethic and deep religiosity) still exist today

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

escape the wrath of the fierce god of the fiery mirror, tezcatlipoca. may it not have been that these demigods of a fabulous age who, esdras-like, came out of the sea were atlantean priests? all that primitive man remembered of the atlanteans was the glory of their golden ornaments, the transcendency of their wisdom, and the sanctity of their symbols--the cross and the serpent. that they came in ships was soon forgotten, for untutored minds considered even boats as supernatural. wherever the atlanteans proselyted they erected pyramids and temples patterned after the great sanctuary in the city of the golden gates. such is the origin of the pyramids of egypt, mexico, and central america. the mounds in normandy and britain, as well as those of the american indians, are remnants of a similar

he seven seals of revelation and the seven churches of asia. 1. the colossus of rhodes, a gigantic brass statue about 109 feet in height and requiring over twelve years to build, was the work of an initiated artist, chares of lindus. the popular theory--accepted for several hundred years--that the figure stood with one foot on each side of the entrance to the harbor of rhodes and that full-rigged ships passed between its feet, has never been substantiated. unfortunately, the figure remained standing but fifty-six years, being thrown down by an earthquake in 224 b.c. the shattered parts of the colossus lay scattered about the ground for more than 900 years, when they were finally sold to a jewish merchant, who carried the metal away on the backs of 700 camels. some believed that the brass w

mplex oratio est) more probably the "whale" of jonah is based upon the pagan mythological creature, hippocampus, part horse and part dolphin, for the early christian statues and carvings show the composite creature and not a true whale. it is reasonable to suppose that the mysterious sea serpents, which, according to the mayan and toltec legends, brought the gods to mexico were viking or chaldean ships, built in the shape of composite sea monsters or dragons. h. p. blavatsky advances the theory that the word cetus, the great whale, is derived from keto, a name for the fish god, dagon, and that jonah was actually confined in a cell hollowed out in the body of a gigantic statue of dagon after he had been captured by phoenician sailors and carried to one of their cities. there is no doubt a g

sons--shem, ham, and japheth. the nations by the descendents of noah's three sons are appropriately shown in the circles upon the branches of the tree. while such tables are hopelessly incorrect from a historical point of view, to the symbolist their allegorical interpretations are of inestimable importance. p. 95 useful to man for shade, for fruit, for medicine, for fuel, for building houses and ships, for furniture, for almost every department of life, that it is no wonder that some of the more conspicuous ones, such as the oak, the pine, the palm, and the sycamore, have been made sacred and used for worship (see monumental christianity) the early fathers of the church sometimes used the tree to symbolize christ. they believed that ultimately christianity would grow up like a mighty oak

ird. it was also asserted that because of its structure, the etheric body of the spring-root was utilized as a vehicle of expression by certain elemental spirits which manifested through the proclivity of drawing out or opening things "aciebel: a mighty ruler of the sea, controlling things both upon and under the water. he furnishes things lost or sunk in rivers, lakes, and oceans, such as sunken ships and treasures. the more sharply you invoke him, the swifter he is upon his errands "machiel: comes in the form of a beautiful maiden and by her aid the magician is raised to honor and dignity. she makes those she serves worthy and noble, gracious and kindly, and assists in all matters of litigation and justice. she will not come unless invoked twice "baruel: the master of all arts. he manife

great salamander oromasis. hence, from that time onward, undying fires have been maintained upon the persian altars in honor of zarathustra's flaming father. one most important subdivision of the salamanders was the acthnici. these creatures appeared only as indistinct globes. they were supposed to float over water at night and occasionally to appear as forks of flame on the masts and rigging of ships (st. elmo's fire. the salamanders were the strongest and most powerful of the elementals, and had as their ruler a magnificent flaming spirit called djin, terrible and awe-inspiring in appearance. the salamanders were dangerous and the sages were warned to keep away from them, as the benefits derived from studying them were often not commensurate with the price paid. as the ancients associat

the ancient mysteries stated emphatically that they had conversed with the immortals, and had beheld the gods. when the standards of the pagans became corrupted, a division took place in the mysteries. the band of truly enlightened ones separated themselves from the rest and, preserving the most important of their secrets, vanished without leaving a trace. the rest slowly drifted, like rudderless ships, on the rocks of degeneracy and disintegration. some of the less important of the secret formul fell into the hands of the profane, who perverted them--as in the case of the bacchanalia, during which drugs were mixed with wine and became the real cause of the orgies. in certain parts of the earth it was maintained that there were natural wells, springs, or fountains, in which the water (beca

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

to cause love between friends and foes. he was of the order of thrones. he governeth 30 legions of spirits; and his seal is this, which wear thou as aforesaid (41) focalor- the forty-first spirit is focalor, or forcalor, or furcalor. he is a mighty duke and strong. he appeareth in the form of a man with gryphon s wings. his office is to slay men, and to drown them in the waters, and to overthrow ships of war, for he hath power over both winds and seas; but he will not hurt any man or thing if he be commanded to the contrary by the exorcist. he also hath hopes to return to the seventh throne after 1,000 years. he governeth 30 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (42) vepar- the forty-second spirit is vepar, or vephar. he is a duke great and strong and appeareth like a mermaid. his

s and seas; but he will not hurt any man or thing if he be commanded to the contrary by the exorcist. he also hath hopes to return to the seventh throne after 1,000 years. he governeth 30 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (42) vepar- the forty-second spirit is vepar, or vephar. he is a duke great and strong and appeareth like a mermaid. his office is to govern the waters, and to guide ships laden with arms, armour, and ammunition, etc, thereon. and at the request of the exorcist he can cause the seas to be right stormy and to appear full of ships. also he maketh men to die in three days by putrefying wounds or sores, and causing worms to breed in them. he governeth 29 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (43) sabnock- the forty-third spirit, as king solomon commanded t

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

1) old world disorder22atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation on atlantis, the peoples of the sequestered colonies of original earth inhabitants, fore-warned of this coming rebellion, would have been prepared to vacate the precincts andoverthrow the tyrannical technocratic elites. knowledge, instruments, and books wererescued and preserved. the freed persons moved onto the waters in ships and with theuse of certain devices attempted to relocate their respective lands. some that were notable to do this settled on lands that were unfamiliar. this is clearly the case with thegaels. in fact, it is recorded that they came to ireland from four sacred islands thatwere destroyed because the rulers were corrupt. in irish myth, we read of the succes-sive waves of colonists, each declar

causes, see gods of eden by william bramley. haarp is used for other purposes also. the stargate prevents the humanoid descen-dants of the nephilim from leaving this planet, but does not prevent other beings fromentering the atmosphere of earth. most sightings today are of the nephilim craftswhich can move freely through the atmosphere but cannot penetrate the barrier. theseother visitors (whose ships are occasionally seen also) are generally beings of a highconsciousness who are allowed through the stargate. in their desperation, the bentones have often sought to trap these incoming ships, in hope of procuring them tomake an escape. to trap these other crafts, they use low and high frequency waves andradiotronic weaponry. these are housed and manipulated from the earth, from belowthe sur

entones have often sought to trap these incoming ships, in hope of procuring them tomake an escape. to trap these other crafts, they use low and high frequency waves andradiotronic weaponry. these are housed and manipulated from the earth, from belowthe surface of the earth, and also, more recently, from orbiting satellites. and certainvisiting beings have indeed suffered the fate of having their ships mysteriously veeringout of control and falling to the ground. the occupants are then summarily abductedand incarcerated in the many underground stations run by the military and are oftentortured to reveal their secrets (see stranger from v enus and the day the earth stoodstill).atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation119 doodles in the crops the greys that are common in eyewitnes

that temptedeve was nahash, from his own race, which was named chan, a serpent (p. 313) coming of the snake cultthe lenni-lenapi (delaware) indians preserve a legend of the decline of the golden age, when apriest, powako, brings to earth worship an evil snake-god, wakon. after which, there is much sadness,crime, and debauchery (see p. 109)retrograde development of humanityit is probable that the ships of the atlanteans, when they returned after the tempest to look for theircountry, found the sea impassable from the masses of volcanic ash and pumice. they returned terrifiedto the shores of europe; and the shock inflicted by the destruction of the world probably lead to one ofthose retrograde periods in the history of our race in which they lost all intercourse with the westerncontinent (p

ian languages.easter islandpart of a much larger landmass that sank.appendix b: book abstracts206atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation dunhuang, chinaa cave which held manuscripts in chinese, buddhist, and sanskrit showing lemuria and the continentsof the east all laid out.dragon linesparks are laid out over them.nephilimalso referred to in the hebrew as the, people from the rocket ships.kieranan irish name similar to the word for serpent, carian. chiron may also be a derivation as is cahen insemitic. hermesthe name really means serpent.royal papyrus of turincontains information about a lineage of priest-kings whose rule stretched back at least 36,620 years.(see p. 38)dana/dianathe celtic and slavic goddess equivalent of diana. she was also a deity connected to mysteries and

e lay behind dramatic event (p. 42)historical ufo sightingstwentieth century ufo were rarely reported in the mass media before 1947 and so most people assumethat ufos must be a relatively recent phenomenon. ufos have been reported for thousands of years inall parts of the world. for example, julius obsequens reproduced the following account from 216 b.c.in his book, prodigorium liber: things like ships were seen in the sky over italyone saw figures likeships (p. 11)appendix b: book abstracts228atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation charles fortcharles fort is probably the earliest writer of the twentieth century to seriously suggest that extraterres-trial have been involved in human affairs (p. 13)the gods at workfrom the mesopotamian records:when the gods like men bore the w

eman and yemen, the home of the wise men of edom, the dukes of edom, and thehighly educated sheba who visited solomon. from elath is a dry river bed that leads to the dead seaand the holy land (p. 31)there seemed to be an understanding that the mediterranean was the sea for one race of els and thered sea for the other (p. 31)largest shipsit is a matter of recorded history that in caesars time the ships of the atlantic were larger than those ofthe mediterranean. and in the days of solomon, about 1,000 b.c, the ships of tarshish were consid-ered as large as ocean going vessels (p. 41)you shall understand that about 3000 years ago, or somewhat more, the navigation of the world (especially for remote voyages) was greater than at this day (francis bacon)hiram of tyresolomon launched his fleets

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

kes it possible for objects and spaces to essentially record events. which brings us to the problem of ghosts. ghosts are usually thought of as spirit beings that roam, or haunt, a given place. some ghosts repeat the same actions over and over again, while other ghosts seem to interact with people and objects in our world. some ghosts are comprised not of individuals, but as objects such as ghost ships and ghost trains. other ghosts may be whole groups of people, such as american civil war battles, where whole ghost armies are seen marching into battle. some ghosts aren t objects at all, but noises, feelings, and odors that seem to come from a distant past. the most pervading theory regarding ghosts is that they are the souls of the departed who weren t ready to move on. consequently, with

hope for a haunted house, he could make it haunted; he didn t have ask the spirit to leave, he could make it leave. hence my decision. there are numerous holes in the theory that a tragic story, combined with unfinished business, leads to the creation of a ghost and the beginning of a haunting. the most glaring is the fact that not all ghosts are people but, as suggested earlier, could be trains, ships, even odors. how did the train become a ghost? did enough souls perish in the train to drag the train--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 50 itself to the spirit world with them? why did those civil war soldiers bring their rifles, uniforms, and horse with them to the afterlife? some hauntings don t include any human speech at all, but instead noises, music, or odors that seem to rise from

MORALS AND DOGMA

lined to smile at the importance they attached to lustrations and fasts, let us pause and inquire whether the same weakness of human nature does not exist to-day, causing rites and ceremonies to be regarded as _actively_ efficient for the salvation of souls. and let us ever remember the words of an old writer, with which we conclude this lecture "it is a pleasure to stand on the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and see a battle and the adventures thereof: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage-ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene, and to see the errors and wanderings, and mists and tempests, in the vale below _so always that this prospect be with pity, and n

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

the ocean, but it is not the ocean. nevertheless, one can certainly study some of the characteristics of the ocean in a drop of sea water. further, as the verse itself states in no uncertain manner, the heavenly isis nuit cannot be regarded as an individual monad! nuit above the abyss does not become one: she is none. the ordeal being a crucial one, it is better that aspirants be forewarned. many ships sank against this rock, some of them vessels of great promise. also, babalon being merely one of the names of nuit, what is true of nuit is true of babalon. 28. none, breathed the light, faint& faery, of the stars, and two. 29. for i am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. 30. this is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

board the argo, which immediately put to sea. murder of absyrtus..meanwhile aetes, having discovered the loss of his daughter and the golden fleece, despatched a large fleet, under the command of his son absyrtus, in pursuit of the fugitives. after some days' sail they arrived at an island at the mouth of the river ister, where they found the argo at anchor, and surrounded her with their numerous ships. they then despatched a herald on board of her, demanding the surrender of medea and the fleece. page 257 medea now consulted jason, and, with his consent, carried out the following stratagem. she sent a message to her brother absyrtus, to the effect that she had been carried off against her will, and promised that if he would meet her, in the darkness of night, in the temple of artemis, she

ge 315 oracle, the answer was still the same; but this time the following explanation accompanied the response: the third fruit signified the third generation, to which they themselves belonged, and not the third fruit of the earth; and by the defile was indicated, not the isthmus of corinth, but the straits on the right of the isthmus [283] temenus lost no time in collecting an army and building ships of war; but just as all was ready and the fleet about to sail, aristodemus, the youngest of the brothers, was struck by lightning. to add to their misfortunes, hippolytes, a descendant of heracles, who had joined in the expedition, killed a soothsayer whom he mistook for a spy, and the gods, in their displeasure, sent violent tempests, by means of which the entire fleet was destroyed, whilst

, at a given signal, stirring strains of martial music were heard outside; whereupon achilles, fired with warlike ardour, seized the weapons, and thus revealed his identity. he now joined the cause of the greeks, accompanied at the request of his father by his kinsman patroclus, and contributed to the expedition a large force of thessalian troops, or myrmidons, as they were called, and also fifty ships. for ten long years agamemnon and the other chiefs devoted all their energy and means in preparing for the expedition against troy. but during these warlike preparations an attempt at a peaceful solution of the difficulty was not neglected. an embassy consisting of menelaus, odysseus &c, was despatched to king priam demanding the surrender of helen; but though the embassy was received with t

elen; but though the embassy was received with the utmost pomp and ceremony, the demand was nevertheless rejected; upon which the ambassadors returned to greece, and the order was given for the fleet to assemble at aulis, in boeotia. never before in the annals of greece had so large an army been collected. a hundred thousand warriors were assembled at aulis, and in its bay floated over a thousand ships, ready to convey them to the trojan coast. the command of this mighty host was intrusted to agamemnon, king of argos, the most powerful of all the greek princes. before the fleet set sail solemn sacrifices were offered to the gods on the sea-shore, when suddenly a serpent was seen to ascend a plane-tree, in which was a sparrow's [289]nest containing nine young ones. the reptile first devoure

oy would last for nine years, and that only in the tenth would the city be taken. page 321 departure of the greek fleet..the fleet then set sail; but mistaking the mysian coast for that of troy, they landed troops and commenced to ravage the country. telephus, king of the mysians, who was a son of the great hero heracles, opposed them with a large army, and succeeded in driving them back to their ships, but was himself wounded in the engagement by the spear of achilles. patroclus, who fought valiantly by the side of his kinsman, was also wounded in this battle; but achilles, who was a pupil of chiron, carefully bound up the wound, which he succeeded in healing; and from this incident dates the celebrated friendship which ever after existed between the two heroes, who even in death remained

e greeks then succeeded in effecting a landing, and in the engagement which ensued the trojans were signally defeated, and driven to seek safety behind the walls of their city. with achilles at their head the greeks now made a desperate attempt to take the city by storm, but were repulsed with terrible losses. after this defeat the invaders, foreseeing a long and wearisome campaign, drew up their ships on land, erected tents, huts &c, and formed an intrenched camp on the coast. between the greek camp and the city of troy was a plain watered by the rivers scamander and simois, and it was on this plain, afterwards so renowned in history [291]that the ever memorable battles between the greeks and trojans were fought. the impossibility of taking the city by storm was now recognized by the lead

of the proud hero was not to be moved; and though he listened courteously to the arguments and representations of the messengers of agamemnon, his resolution to take no further part in the war remained unshaken. in one of the engagements which took place soon afterwards, the trojans, under the command of hector, penetrated into the heart of the greek camp, and had already commenced to burn their ships, when patroclus, seeing the distress of his countrymen, earnestly besought achilles to send him to the rescue at the head of the myrmidons. the better nature of the hero prevailed, and he not only intrusted to his friend the command of [294]his brave band of warriors, but lent him also his own suit of armour. patroclus having mounted the war-chariot of the hero, achilles lifted on high a gol

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

f the templars, whereas the king of france was garrisoned in the castle. the chronicle of bernard the treasurer also informs us that richard the lionheart often took counsel from the templars* further, according to guillaume de tyr, the occasion of richard's truce with saladin on august 10, 1192 inspired the following: when the king of england had made a truce with the saracens, he made ready his ships, to have his vessels loaded with people and provisions. then he told the templar grand master "master, i know full well that i am not loved by everyone, and that if i set sail and it is known that i am at sea, there is no place i can land where i will not be killed or captured. so i ask you to lend me your brother knights and men at arms who will come sail with me. when we are far from here

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

es the minotaur in single combat. according to different sources, he slayed him, either with his bare hands, a club, or with a sword that ariadne had given him. a love betrayed theseus leaves with ariadne after he has killed the minotaur with her help. but he will abandon her on the island of naxos, where she will become the bride of dionysus. black sails when previous tributes had been paid, the ships taking the victims to crete had set out and returned with black sails. king aegeus was so confident in theseus that he gave him white sails to hoist if he defeated the minotaur. but theseus forgot to raise them and aegeus, seeing the black sails on the horizon, threw himself into the sea, now called the aegean in his memory. the fall of icarus (detail, by carlo saraceni c. 1580/85 1620 phaed

don (neptune, his journey took ten years. his adventures included first landing on the island of the lotus eaters, where some of the crew were trapped in a trance, and then on the island of the cyclopes (see box, where several of the crew were devoured. it was odysseus blinding of the cyclops polyphemus poseidon s son that angered the sea god who subsequently blew odysseus off course, wrecked his ships, and ultimately killed his entire crew. in his travels, odysseus indulged in two romantic interludes on the way the first with circe, an enchantress who had turned his crew into pigs, and the second with the sea nymph calypso, with whom he stayed for seven years before his longing for his home and wife moved the gods to pity. unbeknown to poseidon, athena (minerva) and the other gods helped

by love dido s first husband sychaeus, whom she had loved deeply, had been killed by her own brother, and dido had sworn never to remarry. but after cupid kindled the fire of love in her heart for aeneas, she was consumed by desire for him. by taking aeneas as her consort, dido became a pawn in a power game between juno and venus. juno hated the trojans (see p. 62) and deliberately wrecked aeneas ships at carthage, her own city, and encouraged a union with dido to prevent him from founding rome. venus did not trust juno and wished her son to fulfil his destiny. unsure of juno s plans and afraid of the house of carthage, she acted first, making sure that cupid (eros) caused dido to fall so deeply in love with aeneas that her allegiance to juno would be forgotten. devoted sister anna, dido s

by a storm. it was no natural gale, but one sent by juno in order to separate them from their companions, and force them to take refuge in a cave. dido killed herself in grief, lamenting that aeneas had not even left her with a child to love in his stead. but even in death she suffered for many hours before iris, juno s messenger, cut a lock of her hair to release her soul from her body. wrecked ships aeneas and his men were driven ashore at carthage because juno had heard that if they founded a new city it would destroy her own city of carthage. by wrecking them there and bringing dido and aeneas together, she hoped to prevent this. the founding of rome romulus and his twin brother remus were the sons of aeneas descendant rhea silvia, a vestal virgin, and mars (ares, the god of war. at t

RABBI MOSHE WISNEFSKY APPLES FROM THE ORCHARD THE ARIZAL ON THE PARASHAH

her, etc) because otherwise he would not be able to resist her. because the soldier cannot conquer his urge must the torah then permit her to him? if this is so, then let the torah do the same will all other prohibitions! the arizal on parashat ki teitzei 762 secondly, it is stated further in the torah that [one of the punishments for national wrongdoing is that] gg-d will return you to egypt in ships cand you will be sold there to your enemies as slaves and handmaidens, and no one will buy. h4 why is causing us to return to egypt a punishment? the torah does indeed tell us that gyou will see them [the egyptians] no more, h5 but is going against the torah fs command a punishment? thirdly, why did g-d say this about egypt, but not about other exiles? why is he against our returning to egyp

to egypt, but are not so prohibited with regard to other nations [that have oppressed us, for we have not yet elevated all [the divine sparks] within them. gand they emptied out egypt, h meaning that during the egyptian exile the jewish people elevated all the divine sparks that inhered in that culture and country. this is why the punishment for wrongdoing is that g-d gwill return you to egypt in ships. h since egypt corresponds to the upper tip of the yud, and there remain divine sparks to elevate in the other lands, which are in comparison to egypt like the body is to the head, israel must return to egypt. by returning to egypt, the general exile, israel can then proceed to elevate whatever sparks remain in the derivative exiles of the other nations. but as to egypt itself, gno one will

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

g sometimes as a little rough dog, and if crossed, and conjured http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_21.htm (6 of 8 [10/9/2001 12:34:36 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 21-29 [beneficially] in time will be pacified by the death of any other creature instead of the sick man, are only exuded fumes of the man approaching death [these are] exhaled and congealed into a various sickness, as ships and armies are sometimes shaped in the air, and [are] called astral bodies, agitated as wildfire with [the action of the] wind, and are neither souls nor counterfeiting spirits. yet not a few vouch, as is said, that surely these are a numerous people by themselves, having their own politics [that is, systems of society and government. this diversity of judgments may occasion several inconsis

sight is of no long duration, only continuing so long as they can keep their eye steady without twinkling [blinking. the hardy therefore fix their look that they may see longer, but the timorous see only glances, their eyes always twinkling at the first sight of the object. that which is generally seen by them are the species of living creatures and of animate things which are in motion, such as ships and habits upon persons. they never see the species of any person who is already dead. what they foresee fails not to exist in the mode and in that place where it appears to them. they cannot well know what space of time shall intervene between the apparition and the real existence. but some of the hardiest and the longest [in] experience have some rules or conjectures [such] as if they see

ake many well and keep them so. these too the maker distinguished by their kinds as he did all things, that we might discern from their forms and from their colors of what kinds they are and of what manifest virtues. the third form of the sea which circles our orb furnishes us many good things owing to its proximity. for it nourishes fishes and produces salt in abundance, and bears back and forth ships carrying our commerce, by the profits of which the poor man becomes suddenly rich. it makes fertile the neighboring soil and feeds the birds who, they say, are generated from it along with the fishes and, although unlike, are moved by the laws of nature. the sea is dominated by them more than by the fishes, and they fly lightly up from it through space and seek the lofty regions. but its moi

d, and does not permit the vessel to move until it lets go; because of this power it is to be feared. and that which they call the swordfish, because it does injury with its sharp beak, people often fear to approach with a ship when it is swimming, for if it is captured it at once makes a hole in the vessel, cuts it in pieces, and sinks it suddenly in a whirlpool. the serra makes itself feared by ships because of its crest; it fixes to them as it swims underneath, cuts them to pieces and throws the pieces into the waves, wherefore its crest is to be feared like a sword. and the water dragon, which men say has poison under its wings, is to be feared by those who capture it; whenever it strikes it does harm by pouring out its poison. the torpedo is said to have another kind of destruction, f

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ical system, because we make the greatest contribution to it. we provide the artisans and laborers for commerce and public works, and we provide the warm bodies to man the armies and navies that maintain our independence" to which the oligarch would reply "no, we make the greater contribution. it is we who provide the wealth, who meet the payrolls, and who finance the public works, armaments, and ships; so we are the ones who should be in charge" aristotle's point is that neither argument is valid, because neither actually knows what a political system is for. both are proceeding from arbitrary assumptions which have nothing to do with the actual purpose of a political system. my own point is that ms sklar evidently does not know what a magical order is for. classification: v5- 366.c- 1 au

t i bring forth change in accordance to my will. hail shu. hail tefnut. come, my friends, brother and sister, husband and wife, twin lion gods. come, join me. enter into me, and help bring forth shuti, opposites united in one purpose, opposites balanced, and dynamic. come. come. and welcome. hail nut, beautiful black daughter; space, known to the sciences as "outer space, that through which space ships travel, that space through which we see stars and planets, the galaxies. oh beauteous nut, what a joy it is to watch thee at night, to feel your breath, cool and delicious, to watch the stately dance of your stars and planets from east to west. hail nut, the last frontier. hail the past, the past in which man entered into nut, flew in our space craft, and walked upon your moon. hail diana, b

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eed, he said. he left rekha's apartment (its mistress wept, face-down, on the floor; and never entered it again. three days after he met her with his mouth full of unclean meat allie got into an aeroplane and left. three days out of time behind a do-not-disturb sign, but in the end they agreed that the world was real, what was possible was possible and what was impossible was im, brief encounter, ships that pass, love in a transit lounge. after she left, gibreel rested, tried to shut his ears to her challenge, resolved to get his life back to normal. just because he'd lost his belief it didn't mean he couldn't do his job, and in spite of the scandal of the ham-eating photographs, the first scandal ever to attach itself to his name, he signed movie contracts and went back to work. and then

and pish to all _that_ bunkum. what's a ghost? unfinished business, is what- at which the old lady, six feet tall, straight--backed, her hair hacked short as any man's, jerked the corners of her mouth downwards in a satisfied, tragedy-mask pout- pulled a knitted blue shawl tight around bony shoulders- and closed, for a moment, her sleepless eyes, to pray for the past's return. come on, you norman ships, she begged: let's have you, willie-the-conk. nine hundred years ago all this was under water, this portioned shore, this private beach, its shingle rising steeply towards the little row of flaky-paint villas with their peeling boathouses crammed full of deckchairs, empty picture frames, ancient tuckboxes stuffed with bundles of letters tied up in ribbons, mothballed silk--and-lace lingerie

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prince commanding 26 legions. appears as an old, fair man riding on a crocodile and carrying a goshawk on his fist. tells fortunes; finds hidden or lost objects. also mentioned in werus psuedomonarchia demonorum, and more recently in paul huson s influential text mastering witchcraft. vepar, vephar (goetia, 42nd spirit. duke commanding 29 legions. appears as a mermaid. governs the waters; guides ships; causes stormy seas; causes death in three days through putrefying wounds or sores infested with worms. verrier. who tempts mortals to rebellion by making their necks too stiff to bow down. vine, vinea (goetia, 45th spirit. king and earl commanding 36 legions. appears as a lion riding a black horse and carrying a viper. discovers hidden things, witches and wizards; tells fortunes; builds tow

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n. according to vodou the soul comprises three parts. one part is shared by all beings; one part allows the individual body to stay alive; and one part is the seat of the personality and spirit. it is the last part that has been stolen from a zombie. the stereotype of voodoo dolls also has a basis in vodou belief. africans made ritual carvings of the lwa and carried them to the new world on slave ships. they were forbidden to keep their carvings, but they were allowed to keep dolls, called poppets, that had been part of european folk tradition. soon, the africans began to use these dolls as a substitute for their carvings of the lwa. in time, some practitioners of vodou believed that the dolls could be used for magic. they stuck pins into voodoo dolls to bring misfortune to an enemy. most

the people had to unite behind their emperor and the japanese empire because of the shocks of civil war. leaders felt the need to modernize and industrialize (or modernize through the development of business and technology) the country, but they also feared that foreign powers would invade and colonize the japanese islands. adding to this fear of colonization was the arrival in 1853 of the black ships, four american vessels under the command of commodore matthew perry (1794 1858. perry negotiated a trade agreement with japan, ending two hundred years of japanese isolation from most of the rest of the world. later that same decade japan established formal diplomatic ties with the united states and other western nations (the 396 world religions: almanac shinto countries of europe and the am

ome historians believe that japan would have surrendered earlier if the united states and its allies had assured japanese authorities that the emperor could remain on the throne. in the final months of the war, shinto was enlisted to encourage patriotism and willingness to die for the emperor. a prominent example was the kamikaze pilots, who deliberately crashed their bomb-laden planes into enemy ships. note that kami forms a portion of the word kamikaze, which literally means divine wind or wind from the gods. popular decline the period of shinto as state religion abruptly ended in 1945 with the japanese surrender at the end of world war ii. the japanese emperor abandoned his claim that he ruled by divine authority, or that he was a living god. many people became unhappy with shinto 398 w

upholds the tall pillars which keep earth and sky assunder. his daughter it is that holds the hapless man in sorrow: and ever with soft and guileful tales she is wooing him to forgetfulness of ithaca. but odysseus yearning to see if it were but the smoke leap upwards from his own land, hath a desire to die. as for thee, thine heart regardeth it not at all, olympian! what! did not odysseus by the ships of the argives make thee free offering of sacrifice in the wide trojan land? wherefore wast thou then so wroth with him, o zeus? and zeus the cloud-gatherer answered her, and said, my child, what word hath escaped the door of thy lips? yea, how should i forget divine odysseus, who in understanding is beyond mortals and beyond all men hath done sacrifice to the deathless gods, who keep the wi

es. thralls: possessions. prospect: view. betook: took. pondering: thinking. doublet: jacket. bedstead: framework of a bed. 82 world religions: primary sources the odyssey through viii. books ix through xii contain odysseus s account of his adventures since leaving troy. these adventures include his stay in the land of the lotus-eaters; his blinding of polyphemus; the loss of eleven of his twelve ships to a race of cannibals, or eaters of human flesh; his arrival at the island of the enchantress circe; his visit to the land of departed spirits; his encounter with the sirens, partly human creatures who lure seamen to their deaths at sea; and his arrival at calypso s island. in books xiii through xvi, the phaeacians return odysseus to ithaca. after athena disguises him as a beggar, he reveal

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land he succeeded in destroying the power of his enemies, and in driving them from his coasts or frontiers; and this he did by the following means. if the enemy came against him by sea, instead of sending out his sailors to fight them, he retired into a certain chamber, and having brought forth a bowl which he kept for the purpose, he filled it with water, and then, having made wax figures of the ships and men of the enemy, and also of his own men and ships, he set them upon the water in the bowl, his men on one side, and those of the enemy on the other. he then came out, and having put on the cloak of an egyptian prophet and taken an ebony rod in his hand, he returned into the chamber, and uttering words of power he invoked the gods who help men to work magic, and the winds, and the subte

enemy on the other. he then came out, and having put on the cloak of an egyptian prophet and taken an ebony rod in his hand, he returned into the chamber, and uttering words of power he invoked the gods who help men to work magic, and the winds, and the subterranean demons, which straightway came to his aid. by their means the figures of the men in wax sprang into life and began to fight, and the ships of wax began to move about likewise; but the figures which represented his own men vanquished those which represented the enemy, and as the figures of the ships and men of the hostile fleet sank through the water to the bottom of the bowl, even so did the real ships and men sink through the waters to the bottom of the sea. in this way he succeeded in maintaining his power, and he continued t

ied forces were at that moment marching against him. when the king heard the news he laughed, and having said some scornful words about his enemies, he went into his private chamber, and pouring water into the bowl began to work magic in the usual way. but when he had spoken the words of power, he looked at the wax figures, and saw, to his dismay, that the gods of egypt were steering the enemies' ships, and leading their soldiers to war against himself. now as soon as nectanebus saw this, he understood that the end of the kingdom of egypt was at hand, for hitherto the gods had been wont to hold converse with him readily, and to lend him their help whenever he had need of it. he then quitted the chamber hastily, and having shaved off his hair and his beard, and disguised himself by putting

rks of modern writers its existence is not unknown in our own country at the present time. this chapter may be fittingly ended by a notice of the benefits which accrued to a christian merchant in the levant from the use of a wax figure. according to an ethiopic manuscript in the british museum 1 this man was a shipowner as well as a merchant, and be was wont to send his goods to market in his own ships; in his day, however, the sea was infested with pirates, and he lost greatly through their successful attacks upon his vessels. at length he determined to travel in one of his own ships with a number of armed men, so that he might be able to resist any attack which the pirates might make, and punish them for their robberies in times past. soon after he had sailed he fell in with a pirate ves

astened into frames by means of pitch, resin, etc. in this box alexander placed himself, together with two skilful draughtsmen, and having been closed it was towed out to sea by two vessels; and when weights of iron, lead, and stone had been attached to the under part of it, it began to sink, being guided to the place which alexander wished it to reach by means of cords which were worked from the ships. when the box touched the bottom of the sea, thanks to the clearness of the glass sides and the water of the sea, alexander and his two companions were able to watch the various marine monsters which passed by, and he saw that although they had human bodies they had the heads of beasts; some had axes, some had saws, and some had hammers, and they all closely resembled workmen. as they passed

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having in front the shape of a horse, but behind of a fish. and he had a mighty voice, and said to me "o king solomon, i am a fierce spirit of the sea, and i am greedy of gold and silver. i am such a spirit as rounds itself and comes over the expanses of the water of the sea, and i trip up the men who sail thereon. for i round myself into a wave [1, and transform myself, and then throw myself on ships and come right in on them. and that is my business, and my way of getting hold of money and men. for i take the men, and whirl them round with myself, and hurl the men out of the sea. for i am not covetous of men's bodies, but cast them up out of the sea so far. but since beelzeboul, ruler of the spirits of air and of those under the earth, and lord of earthly ones, hath a joint kingship wit

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odysseus feat must be presumed to achieve this, and his experiences thus take on a profounder significance, just as did those of heracles; they become a description of something that does not belong to the world of sense perception, but rather to the inner development of the soul. that is why the narrative course of the odyssey is not adapted to external events, but the hero voyages in enchanted ships, and geographical distances are handled in the most arbitrary fashion; the real and perceptible are not the point. it is easy to understand why, if the outward 80 christianity as mystical fact events are narrated in order to clothe in pictures a spiritual process. the poet himself says in the opening invocation that his poem treats of the search for the soul. sing in me muse! sing the tale o

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of a dualism between good and evil. derived from the greek word zarat or zarathustra, meaning camel handler. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 334 glossary cumulative index 335 the cumulative index, found in each volume, is an alphabetic arrangement of all people, places, images, and concepts found in the text. names of publications, movies, ships, television programs, radio broadcasts, foreign words, and crossreferences are indicated by italics. the page references to the subjects include the arabic volume number as well as the page number. main entries are designated by bold page numbers while images are denoted by italics. a abgar (king of edessa, 1:237 abominable snowman. see yeti abramelin magi m users the opportunity to evaluate

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ychic marionettes, responding to the fears and expectations of their human percipients. in some dramatic instances, an entire section of landscape seems to be haunted. in most cases of this particular type of haunting, a tragic scene from the past is recreated in precise detail, as some cosmic photographer had committed the panorama to ethereal film footage. battles are waged, trains are wrecked, ships are sunk, the screams of earthquake victims echo through the night all as it actually took place months, years, or centuries before. thomas a. edison (1847 1931, the electrical wizard, theorized that energy, like matter, is indestructible. he became intrigued by the idea of developing a radio that would be sensitive enough to pick up the sounds of times past sounds which were no longer audib

ine zoologist or other scientist has been able to observe the giant squid in its natural habitat. the huge creature, commonly known as the kraken, has been reported throughout nautical history. there have been frightening reports of people snatched from their boats or the seashore by the tentacles of the kraken, numerous sightings of whales being attacked by the giant squid, and stories of entire ships being pulled beneath the surface by a beast with tentacles more than 200 feet long. some scholars of marine lore insist that the great giant squid fight scene in jules verne s (1828 1905) 20,000 leagues under the sea (1870) was based on an actual encounter with a kraken that involved the french battleship alecton in 1861. on a weekend in july 2002, early morning joggers discovered the remain

e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends 199 people believe a sneeze is a sign that the soul was giving them an omen. way of consecrating or anointing. to spit on anything has been accepted as a method of ensuring good luck or success in an undertaking for so long that no one can determine when the practice began. sailors spit on their ships for luck. fishermen spit over the edge of their boats to guarantee a good catch. schoolboys spit on their shooter marbles for luck in knocking the other players marbles out of the circle. in the old days, those about to engage in a fistfight spit on their knuckles to increase the power of their blows. even today, some people who are about to undertake a difficult physical task first spit on

ivilege of cremation and were buried. when cremation was conducted, the ceremonies were elaborate and solemn and the ashes of the deceased were placed in urns of burned clay and buried. later, when burial became the custom in greece, the bodies were enclosed in elaborate stone caskets, similar to the roman sarcophagi. the vikings of old scandinavia sometimes buried their kings and queens in their ships, but the traditional viking funeral was to set the dragon-headed longboat afire and send it out to sea to burn. on the danish colony of greenland, the vikings who settled on its shores believed that there was danger of pollution from the evil spirits that lurked around the corpse until the smell of death had passed away. they burned the dead body almost before it became cold and tried to avo

ntelligence that pervades and controls the universe. fry remained active as a lecturer in the flying saucer movement until his death in 1992 and directed one of the largest of the ufo groups, comprising more than 60 units. m delving deeper fry, daniel w. to men of earth. elsinore, calif: el cariso, 1973. the white sands incident. madison, wis: horus house, 1992. gibbons, gavin. they rode in space ships. new york: citadel press, 1957. klass, philip j. ufos explained. new york: random house, 1974. sachs, margaret. the ufo encyclopedia. new york: perigee books, 1980. story, ronald d, ed. the encyclopedia of extraterrestrial encounters. new york: new american library, 2001. betty (1920) and barney hill (1922 1969) the case of betty and barney hill has become the prototype for the interrupted j

the creator as cause; polarity of negative and positive; vibration; rhythm; relativity; and mentality. van tassel maintained his headquarters at giant rock, california, for many years, making it a gathering place for both the curious and the true believers. he was the author of i rode a flying saucer (1952) and the council of seven lights (1958. m delving deeper gibbons, gavin. they rode in space ships. new york: citadel press, 1957. sachs, margaret. the ufo encyclopedia. new york: perigee books, 1980. story, ronald d, ed. the encyclopedia of extraterrestrial encounters. new york: new american library, 2001. van tassel, george. the council of seven lights. los angeles: de vorss, 1958. i rode a flying saucer. los angeles: new age publishing, 1952. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t

d it remained on active duty until 1946. after it had been removed from military service, it was mothballed until it was transferred to the greek navy. many ufo researchers maintain that some kind of secret experiment took place with a navy warship in 1943, thus planting the seed for the legend of the philadelphia experiment. most speculate that it was probably an experiment in attempting to make ships invisible to enemy submarines and that it very well could have involved incredibly high voltages of electricity which could have burned and scorched seamen and even delivered a kind of shock that drove some of the crewmen insane. other researchers have insisted that a government conspiracy is at work and that the secret experiment ripped a hole in the spacetime continuum that permitted alien

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nsson was instrumental in locating several mineshafts containing more than $2 billion in gold. jonsson and a number of the other treasure hunters recalled later how the mine shafts were filled with the sorrowful spirits of the men and women the japanese military had enslaved to do the digging. throughout the 1970s and 1980s, jonsson joined numerous treasure hunters who sought the watery graves of ships that had gone down with cargo on board. although he continued to be successful in these quests, jonsson received little income from these enterprises. m delving deeper psi-stjarna [online] http//paranormal.se/topic/ olof_jonsson.html. 23 november 2002. margaret harrell fs website [online] http//www. marharrell.com/pages/ndono1.html. seagrave, sterling. the marcos dynasty. new york: harper& r

e of atlantis has been found, but its attributes have expanded to include engineering and technological feats that enhance its legendary status in the popular imagination. atlanteans are commonly thought by enthusiasts to have had cosmic connections with extraterrestrial life. the truth behind such alleged places of mystery and power as the bermuda triangle, an area off the coast of florida where ships and aircraft are said to vanish without a trace; el dorado, the city of gold which drove the spanish conquistadors on endless fruitless searches; and avalon, the mystical place where the legendary king arthur was taken after receiving mortal wounds in battle are also examined. although the stories of camelot, arthur, and the knights of the round table are only myths, there are actual sites o

rew were confused by shallow areas of sea with no land nearby. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 226 places of mystery and power merlin and vivien, the fairy queen of avalon (fortean picture library) the term gbermuda triangle h was first used in an article written by vincent h. gaddis for argosy magazine in 1964. gaddis claimed that several ships and planes had disappeared without explanation in that area. the article was expanded and included in his book, invisible horizons: true mysteries of the sea (1965, where he described nine mysterious incidents and provided extensive detail. many newspapers carried a story in december of 1967 about strange incidents in the bermuda triangle after a national geographic society news release brou

ions that sailors and pilots need to be aware of, has not been challenged. however, neither statistics nor documented evidence indicates that the num- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d places of mystery and power 227 the gdevil fs sea h and the dragon fs triangle located in the philippine sea off china fs eastern coast is known for vanishing ships and seamen similar to the legendary bermuda triangle. while sensational theories for the mysterious disappearances speak of extraterrestrials and lost kingdoms under the sea wreaking havoc, others believe that the region displays the same magnetic anomalies as the bermuda triangle. the area, which can be marked off on a map by connecting japan, taiwan, and yap island, has become known as the

; an american freighter, the ss sandra (1952, which sunk without a trace; a british york transport plane, disappeared in 1952, with 33 aboard; a u.s. navy lockheed constellation airplane, vanished in 1954 with 42 aboard; a u.s. navy seaplane, 1956, with a crew of 10; a french freighter in 1970; and a german freighter, anita, lost in 1972 with a crew of 32. theories about why so many air and water ships disappeared in the bermuda triangle involve strange magnetic fields, time warps, the lost continent of atlantis, and alien abduction. other proposed explanations include physical forces unknown to science, a ghole in the sky, h and an unusual chemical component in the region fs seawater. several books have suggested that an intelligent, technologically advanced race living in space or under

tic fields, time warps, the lost continent of atlantis, and alien abduction. other proposed explanations include physical forces unknown to science, a ghole in the sky, h and an unusual chemical component in the region fs seawater. several books have suggested that an intelligent, technologically advanced race living in space or under the sea has been responsible for jamming equipment and leading ships and planes to disaster. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 228 places of mystery and power thebermuda triangle has claimed over 1,000 lives during the twentieth century. many books and articles play up mystery angles concerning vanished ships by depicting the disappearances as having occurred in calm weather and daylight. such particular

dead. in britain, many of the ancient sites on ley lines were erected by celts, a people who had rituals involving nature. since the celts were more attuned to the natural world than modern humans, according to those who believe in cosmic lines of force, their structures were purposefully erected on sites of pulsating energy. some ufo proponents believe that ley lines were energy forces on which ships from outer space were able to harness energy and move quickly around earth. ley hunting, the act of researching ancient sites to discover straight alignments, has also inspired detractors. many supposed leys had sites built at various times and by various societies: a celtic hill-fort from 200 b.c.e. might be followed on a ley by a christian church erected in medieval times. watkins countere

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strong against sorrow to be immortal. then we shall live in god with a more abundant life, and we shall descend into his works with the light of his thought, we shall be borne away into the infinite by the whisper of his love. we shall be without doubt the elder brethren of a new race, the angels of posterity. celestial messengers, we shall wander in immensity, and the stars will be our gleaming ships. 18 we shall transform ourselves into sweet visions to calm weeping eyes; we shall gather radiant lilies in unknown meadows, and we shall scatter their dew upon the earth. we shall touch the eyelid of the sleeping child, and rejoice the heart of its mother with the spectacle of the beauty of her wellbeloved son! ii the binary the binary is more particularly the number of woman, mate of man a

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investigate new reports while the project's head, dr. edward u. condon, complained that it was like a fire department that answered only false alarms. that spring some of the scientists spent weeks in the harrisburg, pennsylvania, area observing the "meandering nocturnal lights" that busied themselves there nightly. their learned conclusion was that the pennsylvanian skies were "most remarkable" ships in the atlantic were reporting huge luminous "cigars" discharging small globes of light which sailed toward new york and long island. and on long island and neighboring connecticut, those globes were cutting nightly capers. during my frequent treks out to long island, i saw several of the objects myself and i collected some eyewitness testimony that boggled my already much-boggled mind. one

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between his feet, until shiloh come; and unto him [shall] the gathering of the people [be] 49:11 binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 49:12 his eyes [shall be] red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. 49:13 zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he [shall be] for an haven of ships; and his border [shall be] unto zidon. 49:14 issachar [is] a strong ass couching down between two burdens: 49:15 and he saw that rest [was] good, and the land that [it was] pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. 49:16 dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of israel. 49:17 dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the

irst of the nations; but his latter end [shall be] that he perish for ever. 24:21 and he looked on the kenites, and took up his parable, and said, strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock. 24:22 nevertheless the kenite shall be wasted, until asshur shall carry thee away captive. 24:23 and he took up his parable, and said, alas, who shall live when god doeth this! 24:24 and ships [shall come] from the coast of chittim, and shall afflict asshur, and shall afflict eber, and he also shall perish for ever. 24:25 and balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and balak also went his way. 25:1 and israel abode in shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of moab. 25:2 and they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the p

life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: 28:67 in the morning thou shalt say, would god it were even! and at even thou shalt say, would god it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 28:68 and the lord shall bring thee into egypt again with ships, by the way whereof i spake unto thee, thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy [you] 29:1 these [are] the words of the covenant, which the lord commanded moses to make with the children of israel in the land of moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in horeb. 29:2 and moses called unto all israel

er. 5:15 and the princes of issachar [were] with deborah; even issachar, and also barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. for the divisions of reuben [there were] great thoughts of heart. 5:16 why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? for the divisions of reuben [there were] great searchings of heart. 5:17 gilead abode beyond jordan: and why did dan remain in ships? asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches. 5:18 zebulun and naphtali [were] a people [that] jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field. 5:19 the kings came [and] fought, then fought the kings of canaan in taanach by the waters of megiddo; they took no gain of money. 5:20 they fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against sisera. 5:

work. 9:24 but pharaoh s daughter came up out of the city of david unto her house which [solomon] had built for her: then did he build millo. 9:25 and three times in a year did solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the lord, and he burnt incense upon the altar that [was] before the lord. so he finished the house. 9:26 and king solomon made a navy of ships in eziongeber, which is beside eloth, on the shore of the red sea, in the land of edom. 9:27 and hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of solomon. 9:28 and they came to ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought [it] to king solomon. page 203 1 kings 10:1 and when the queen of sheba heard of the fa

de peace with the king of israel. 22:45 now the rest of the acts of jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of judah? 22:46 and the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father asa, he took out of the land. 22:47 [there was] then no king in edom: a deputy [was] king. 22:48 jehoshaphat made ships of tharshish to go to ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at eziongeber. 22:49 then said ahaziah the son of ahab unto jehoshaphat, let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. but jehoshaphat would not. 22:50 and jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of david his father: and jehoram his son reigned in his stead. 22:51 a

king unto the priests and levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures. 8:16 now all the work of solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the lord, and until it was finished. so the house of the lord was perfected. 8:17 then went solomon to ezion-geber, and to eloth, at the sea side in the land of edom. 8:18 and huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of solomon to ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought [them] to king solomon. 9:1 and when the queen of sheba heard of the fame of solomon, she came to prove solomon with hard questions at jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

mes selected, where, as de lancre quaintly observes, there were no houses but the houses of the dead, especially if it were in a solitary situation, as when attached to solitary churches and chapels, in the middle of the heaths, or on the tops of cliffs on the sea shore, such as the chapel of the portuguese at st. jean de luz, called st. barbe, situated so high that it serves as a landmark to the ships approaching the coast, or on a high mountain, as la rhune in labourd, and the puy de dome in perigord, and other such places. criminel bayonne, lequel faisoit en mesme tempes que nous y estions une plus ample inquisition contre certains sorci res, en vertu d un arrest de la cour de parlement de bourdeaux. puis s en allerent en mesme nuict le tenir chez le feigneur du lieu, qui est le sr. d a

evil s urine. she pointed out two of the accused whom she had seen at the sabbath playing upon the tabor and the violin. she spoke of the numbers who were seen arriving and departing continually, the latter to do evil, the former to report what they had done. they went out at sea, even as far as newfoundland, where their husbands and sons went to fish, in order to raise storms, and endanger their ships. this deponent spoke also of the fires at the sabbath, into which the witches were sont voilez pour donner opinion aux pauvres que ce sont des princes et grans seigneurs, et qu aucun d eux n ayt horreur d y estre et faire ce qu ils sont en adorant le diable. les autres sont decouverts et tout ouvertement dancent, s accouplent, font du poison, et autres fonctions diaboliques, et ceux cy ne so

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hbors. cults of female gods, existing away from the center of societies, can still be observed. remnants of goddess worship are evident in the adoration of the virgin mary among christians, the veneration of the matronit and shekhinah among jews, the worship of shakti among hindus. the women's movement has sparked a revival of interest in the goddess. the contemporary pagan religion of wicca wor- ships the earth mother in her many guises. as for the worship of god as a child, christianity is the most obvious example. in the middle ages, jesus was often depicted as a babe in arms with a wise adult head, or as a slender effeminate figure with a narrow waist and broad hips. child- god cultures are characterized by an ambivalence between the active and passive impulses. no question is more puz

sus had leapt from the high place at the urging of lucifer, it would have been a physical expression of chaotic or evil behavior, and its punishment would also have taken a physical form--destruction of the body on the rocks below. there are many contemporary examples of the chastening hand of the all. the bands of lunatics who periodically gather in the desert to greet the landing of giant space ships-space ships that never come-demonstrate the seduction of lucifer in the modern world. so do the exhibitions of levitation by eastern fakirs that fail before thousands of spectators and invite the scorn of humanity. karma continues to scourge those who presume to use the art for personal gain in defiance of cosmic law. those who try to get something for nothing will get more than they bargain

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

s is true in my own experience regarding a fairy realm that has the form of a small town located on the bank of a river. it is set in a time period several centuries before our own, a period roughly equivalent to the elizabethan age. there are farmlands and meadows surrounding the town. an old country road leads across them and through the town to the waterfront, where there is a dock for sailing ships that carry goods out the mouth of the river to the sea. i have visited this astral world dozens of times, and find myself completely at peace there. the inhabitants greet me pleasantly with knowing looks. it has become a sort of second home. when visiting the same astral world repeatedly, it is important not to disrupt its natural functioning by intruding yourself too much into its affairs

wonders and mysteries that remains largely unexplored and uncharted, a new world waiting to be discovered by those adventurous enough to enter its wilderness. i hope this book has provided some sense of how vast and strange this world truly is, and how significant a part soul flight has played throughout the spiritual evolution of the human species. bibliography adamski, george. inside the space ships. new york: abelard-schuman, inc, 1955. agrippa, cornelius. three books of occult philosophy [1533. donald tyson (editor. translated from the latin by j. f. in 1651. st. paul, mn: llewellyn, 1993. alexander, michael (translator. the earliest english poems [1966. harmondsworth, uk: penguin, 197el magic: the yoga of the west although they differ in methods, magic and yoga share a common goal-to

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mportant role as the support upon which grows the sacred mistletoe, the symbol of the life force that endures through the darkness of winter. mistletoe was harvested from oaks by the druids, with golden sickles, to serve a ritual function. oak wood was used wherever great mass and strength were needed, such as the axles upon which millstones turned, the frames of houses, and the keels and ribs of ships. thus the oak is an excellent tree from which to construct the axle of the universe. when we consider that mistletoe is a symbol of life, we can appreciate how perverse is the imagery in the key of "nests" upon the tree of life which lament the sorrow "laid up" or reserved, for the goddess of the earth, she who is called the soul of the world. these nests "vomit out the heads of scorpions an

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

opolis is, like osiris, black in colour "and even egypt[fn#332] itself, by reason of the extreme blackness of the soil, is called by them 'chemia' the very name which is given to the black part or pupil of the eye.[fn#333] it is, moreover, represented by them under the figure of a human heart" the sun and moon are not represented as being drawn about in chariots, but as sailing round the world in ships, which shows that they owe their motion, support, and nourishment to the power of humidity.[fn#334] homer and thales both learned from egypt that "water was the first principle of all things, and the cause of generation"[fn#335 [fn#330] experiments recently conducted by lord rayleigh indicate that the true colour of water is blue [fn#331] in egyptian, nem-ur, or men-ur, and he was "called th

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stumbled across these entrances rarely returned to tell the tale. one such underground system may have been the caverns of "patalas" which according to hindu tradition is a seven-leveled cavern realm stretching generally from benares india to lake manosarowar tibet, where some locals have allegedly encountered the cunning and cruel underground-dwelling reptilian "nagas" and have seen their aerial ships entering and leaving the mountainous cliffs. the "nordics" also moved much of their civilization underground, into the "agharti" cavern networks, and from time to time as both sides spread their influence through the cracks and crevices of the earth, deadly clashes between the humans and the reptiloids broke out. in other cases human sorcerers greedy for personal gain would sell out their ow

ollective they are 'tuned in' to, those that are controlled more by malevolent forces or those that are controlled by more neutral forces or entities that have not been fully "assimilated" psychologically into the alien "hive. but some things that cac refers to seem to make sense, especially the following quote in response to reports that an alien conflict resulted in a planetoid and accompanying ships crashing into jupiter. this planetoid was reportedly arriving from a dark star outside of our system called nemesis, in the direction of orion- a sphere which if it had enough mass would have become our nearest stellar neighbor, yet lacking mass it condenced into a large frozen planet about the size of jupiter. a dark star. this planetoid was reportedly filled with 40 million draco warriors

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

, and seek their meat from god. the sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens. man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening. o lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. so is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. there go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein. these wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season. that thou givest them, they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good. thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and tho

nature even as we assert that women s rational and spiritual capacities are equal to those of men. what we search for is a way to undercut the dualism and to construct a new, wholestic design for all of reality built on appreciation of difference in a genuine community. we seek a unifying vision that does not stratify what is distinct into superior-inferior layers but reconciles them in relation ships of mutuality. let us then listen to women s wisdom, discern our kinship with the earth, and remember the spirit, as we step toward an ecological ethic and spirituality. women, earth and creator spirit pg. 34 iron in our blood a crucial insight emerges from this creation story of cosmic and biological evolution. the kinship model of humankind s relation to the world is not just a poetic, good

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

l the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders' the armorial bearings of b enjamin are green, and a wolf. these suit the character of sagittarius, partly keen, partly of the nature ofjupiter, and partly brutal" holy name gaiol tribe zebulun sign capricorn angelic name lavavoh "of zebulun (capricorn, jacob says `zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto zidon' moses says 'rejoice, zebulun, in thy going out; and, issachar, in thy tents. they shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, of the treasures hid in the sand' this suits well with the tropical, earthy and watery signs of capricorn and cancer. the armorial b

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